No Compromise!

We live in a world that encourages compromise. Every day we are called upon to just let it be—it’ll be okay. What am I talking about? I’m talking about our values, our morals, our beliefs, our stand. Society calls upon us to fudge on these things and simply accept the change that is inevitable.

Certainly in this lost world we are in, change comes. Fact is, it has sped up. Change is happening so rapidly around us, our heads and lives are spinning trying to get some kind of grip on what is going on around us.

I am reminded of a society about 2500 years ago that was going through rapid change. The government of the time was demanding all the people worship the established gods of the leadership. Failure to do so invited immediate death.

Three Hebrew teens recognized the Word of the LORD was to worship no one but Almighty GOD. When instructed to bend their beliefs, be a little flexible—it won’t hurt anything to bow down to the idol—you don’t have to bow down in heart only bend a knee—they understood the GOD’s Word to tell them they were to worship no other gods so they absolutely refused to bend or bow.

When the king found out about their refusal, he even offered them another opportunity to bend a knee rather than face the fiery furnace. What they said to him expresses their true dedication to GOD Almighty: “If the God we serve exists, then He can rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and He can rescue us from the power of you, the king. But even if He does not rescue us, we want you as king to know that we will not serve your gods or worship the gold statue you set up” (Daniel 3:17-18).

Their faith and trust in GOD regardless of the physical outcome is to be highly regarded. If GOD wanted to save them, He certainly could, but even if He chose not to, He would still receive all glory no matter the outcome. They recognized the value of taking a stand. They recognized that this physical body is not our home and destroying the physical body simply meant it was time to go home. As we know from the rest of the story, GOD delivered them in a miraculous way and His name became highly regarded across the kingdom.

Today, tomorrow and the rest of our earthly lives, we are going to be challenged to be politically correct. We are going to be challenged to fudge our beliefs, our morals and our values. We must determine that we are here to stand for GOD and His Word. We must refuse to take the easy way out and just go along with whatever. Church, we must join together and stand against anything that stands against the Word of Almighty GOD in Whom we serve.