Good day all and so sorry for my inability to post the concluding part of this series last week. In the spirit of the season, I humbly seek your understanding. I wish you all compliments of the season, Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2008. Do enjoy the remaining part of our series on compromise until next week when we have a new topic for discussion.............
Now what happens when we refuse to compromise? Sometimes it leads to pain and involves a lot of sacrifice but ultimately, it ALWAYS leads to achievement, success and accomplishment. Refusal to compromise is usually alluded to when we use such words as courage, persistence, determination, etc. Anytime we refuse to settle for anything less than what we believe in, then that is refusal to compromise.
Examples abound in scripture on refusal to compromise. Abraham, our father in faith refused to compromise to doubt God’s word concerning sacrificing his only child Isaac when God asked him to do so. He believed God was going to give him another child and he was accepted by God as righteous and that sealed his covenant with God (Gen. 22: 1-18).
David refused to compromise to the threat of the Philistines and God gave him victory over Goliath of Gath and the philistine army, though he was just a little lad (1 Sam 17: 22-54).
Noah did not compromise his faith in the command of God that he builds an ark to save himself and his family from the impending destruction of the world God was planning. He obeyed God and he and his family – eight of them – were saved (Gen. 6: 5-22).
Even though he was sold into slavery by his siblings, Joseph did not compromise his faith to sleep with his slave master Potiphar’s wife. He suffered the pain of imprisonment for a while but rose by God’s special grace to become the second most powerful man in the whole of Egypt, a foreign land! (Gen 39: 1 – 41:46). There are many stories of refusal to compromise seen in scriptures in Heb. 11.
In our time, we see refusal to compromise resulting in great achievements: Henry Ford was able to produce the first 8-cylinder engine by refusing to compromise to his worker’s claims that it could not be done.
Examples abound in scripture on refusal to compromise. Abraham, our father in faith refused to compromise to doubt God’s word concerning sacrificing his only child Isaac when God asked him to do so. He believed God was going to give him another child and he was accepted by God as righteous and that sealed his covenant with God (Gen. 22: 1-18).
David refused to compromise to the threat of the Philistines and God gave him victory over Goliath of Gath and the philistine army, though he was just a little lad (1 Sam 17: 22-54).
Noah did not compromise his faith in the command of God that he builds an ark to save himself and his family from the impending destruction of the world God was planning. He obeyed God and he and his family – eight of them – were saved (Gen. 6: 5-22).
Even though he was sold into slavery by his siblings, Joseph did not compromise his faith to sleep with his slave master Potiphar’s wife. He suffered the pain of imprisonment for a while but rose by God’s special grace to become the second most powerful man in the whole of Egypt, a foreign land! (Gen 39: 1 – 41:46). There are many stories of refusal to compromise seen in scriptures in Heb. 11.
In our time, we see refusal to compromise resulting in great achievements: Henry Ford was able to produce the first 8-cylinder engine by refusing to compromise to his worker’s claims that it could not be done.
England’s former Prime Minister Winston Churchill refused to compromise and surrender to Adolf Hitler’s war threats in spite of Hitler having conquered much of Europe, and the war was eventually won against Hitler’s forces.
In his bid to save many of his patients who were dying from surgical infections (though unknown at the time), Joseph Lister, a surgeon, refused to compromise to his colleagues tauntings and criticisms for over 16 years between 1865 and 1881 and was eventually able to discover the importance and use of antiseptics that we know today.
Thomas Edison who had only three months of formal schooling and was sent home to his mother as one who would not amount to much, did not compromise and give up. Today, his refusal to compromise with his mother’s support has placed him in history as one of the greatest inventors with over a hundred such inventions as the incandescent bulb, telegraph, and so on.
No matter what it is you choose to become in life, always remember that true wealth derives from non compromise in what you have set out to achieve. There is a story of a man who travelled from Africa to the United States in search of greener pastures.
In his bid to save many of his patients who were dying from surgical infections (though unknown at the time), Joseph Lister, a surgeon, refused to compromise to his colleagues tauntings and criticisms for over 16 years between 1865 and 1881 and was eventually able to discover the importance and use of antiseptics that we know today.
Thomas Edison who had only three months of formal schooling and was sent home to his mother as one who would not amount to much, did not compromise and give up. Today, his refusal to compromise with his mother’s support has placed him in history as one of the greatest inventors with over a hundred such inventions as the incandescent bulb, telegraph, and so on.
No matter what it is you choose to become in life, always remember that true wealth derives from non compromise in what you have set out to achieve. There is a story of a man who travelled from Africa to the United States in search of greener pastures.
Though he was married back in his home country, he needed to get a permanent stay in America so he entered into a union with an American lady who now insisted contrary to their original agreement that he must sleep with her before she signs the documents to give him his stay in America.
This man was a supposed Christian and after seeking advice from a wrong source, he compromised and went ahead and slept with the lady and behold, she had HIV, which passed to him and he eventually died and lost all his dreams.
If you are still not moved by that tragic story of compromise, then what do you say about our first parents Adam and Eve who compromised, disobeyed God’s command and that singular act has resulted in death entering the world and mankind losing the eternal joy found in the Garden of Eden (Gen 3: 1-24)?
Never seek to compromise your situation in your pursuit of wealth, fame or recognition. There is always regret lying in wait for such a person. Concluded.
© copyright Gabriel Ama.
This man was a supposed Christian and after seeking advice from a wrong source, he compromised and went ahead and slept with the lady and behold, she had HIV, which passed to him and he eventually died and lost all his dreams.
If you are still not moved by that tragic story of compromise, then what do you say about our first parents Adam and Eve who compromised, disobeyed God’s command and that singular act has resulted in death entering the world and mankind losing the eternal joy found in the Garden of Eden (Gen 3: 1-24)?
Never seek to compromise your situation in your pursuit of wealth, fame or recognition. There is always regret lying in wait for such a person. Concluded.
© copyright Gabriel Ama.
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