{"id":4224,"date":"2021-03-02T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T09:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/destinykids.org\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2021-11-20T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T11:30:17","slug":"no-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church.drnfoundation.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/02\/no-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"No Compromise!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To compromise means to go a little bit below what you know to be right, and it is a major way Satan deceives people. The devil says that \u201cjust once\u201d won\u2019t hurt. That is what he told Jesus when he tempted Him in the wilderness (see Luke 4<\/a>). He said if Jesus would bow down and worship him just once, he would give Him all the kingdoms of this world (see Luke 4:5-8<\/a>). I once heard a funny story about a father whose children were trying to convince him to let them go to a movie that had a little foul language and a few inappropriate sex scenes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They argued that just a little bit wouldn\u2019t hurt them. He told them no and then proceeded to give them an example of how dangerous just \u201ca little bit\u201d can be. He baked his children\u2019s favorite cookies and then told them he had added just a tiny bit of a new ingredient\u2014dog poop\u2014but he guaranteed them that they would not taste it at all. Not one of them was willing to try the new cookies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dad made his point! Jesus said that we are in the world but we are not to be like it (see John 17:14\u201316<\/a>; Romans 12:2<\/a>). Likewise, Paul wrote to Timothy that a soldier in service does not get entangled in the enterprises of civilian life\u2014his aim is to satisfy the one who enlisted him (see 2 Timothy 2:4<\/a>). What does this mean for us? Set standards, live by them, and don\u2019t compromise when others urge you to do so. Don\u2019t believe the \u201cjust once\u201d or the \u201ca little won\u2019t hurt\u201d lies! Just because someone else does something, that doesn\u2019t make it right for you. We must not let the fear of what people think of us lead us to compromise our moral behavior. If our faith in Jesus is genuine and sincere, then we will be the same in every situation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pray: Father, I want to honor You with my life. Help me in all things to be a person of integrity who refuses to compromise. Help me to live my life for You, regardless of what everyone else is doing. Your Word says that when we honor You with our lives, You will honor us (see 1 Samuel 2:30<\/a>). In Jesus\u2019 name, I pray. Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To compromise means to go a little bit below what you know to be right, and it is a major way Satan deceives people. The devil says that \u201cjust once\u201d won\u2019t hurt. That is what he told Jesus when he tempted Him in the wilderness (see Luke 4). He said if Jesus would bow down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/church.drnfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Illo_ParentingTeens-5a6261e689eacc003655579e.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paEDf9-168","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church.drnfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church.drnfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church.drnfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church.drnfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church.drnfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/church.drnfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5545,"href":"https:\/\/church.drnfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions\/5545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church.drnfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church.drnfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church.drnfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church.drnfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}