A friend sent this to me . . . it really spoke to me and I feel it would be good for all of us to read and remember that we must follow God even if it means forsaking man.  We can no longer afford compromise in our life, regardless of the personal cost!  Because I love each of you, I'm forwarding this for you to read . . . 

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Tuesday, May 22.2001 
Scripture Reading: Judges 18:1-24 

Good Morning Saints: 
                        Have you thought about the misery of compromise? 
Have you ever allowed yourself to get into a compromising situation and 
experienced the confusion, pain and frustration those events produce. The 
18th chapter of Judges has two focal pionts,which are, the Levite Priest and 
the Danites. Today, we will study the Priest and tomorrow the Danites. We can 
learn some lessons on the misery of compromise from the Levite Priest. 
1) When you compromise you end up working for a man: When the Danites heard 
the dialect or accent of the Levite Priest, they ask him, what are you doing 
in this place? Have you ever been in that position and ask that question?"He 
told them what Micah had done for him, and he said,"He has hired me and I am 
his priest." The focus is not, I am working for God but I am working for a 
man. When we stray from the place God has called us, we become a slave to man 
and not our Lord Jesus Christ. God has a plan and a place for all of us. Are 
we where he wants us? 
2) When you compromise you end up delivering the message people want to hear rather than a message from God: Verse 5 says the Danites ask the priest to 
enquire of God for them about whether their journey would be successful. That 
had already been declared by God in Joshua 14-20. "Go in Peace" said the 
priest, your journey has the Lord's approval. Why would you want to ask a man 
that is in Idol Worship and outright rebellion to God, for an answer from 
God? The miserable state of compromise in the life of the priest had produced 
a position of no Power. (Prov 15: 8 & 29) 
3)  When you compromise you end up in a Powerless position: The story unfolds 
with the priest in that the Danites want him to go with them and be a priest 
over a tribe rather than a single man. He complies and only puts himself into 
a more powerless position, for the men of Micah come after him as well.   
Jonathan, the Levite Priest, the grandson of Moses, goes on with the Danites 
and becomes their priest with his son's until they went into captivity. 
Compromise, always will lead us into captivity, unless we repent, return, and 
repeat our first work God called us and ordained us for. 
What a miserable place is the world of Compromise. 

In  HIS Service we remain 
Larry 
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Love,
Jan