Refuse to Compromise

Refusing the Smallest Compromise

Click here for link to video – Haman’s Plot. A little historical overview of Haman the Agagite.

Refuse even the smallest compromise in what you believe – that’s what Modecai did.

Modecai wasn’t going to bend – not one bit – when Haman, the newly appointed prime minister of Persia, demanded a show of reverence bordering on worship (Esther 3:12). When the palace officials asked Modecai why he refused to reverence the prime minister, he told them he was a Jew. And what difference did that make? The Lord Himself had said, “You shall have no other gods before Me…You shall not bow down to them not to serve them” (Exodus 20:3, 5). Day after day these men tried to “talk some sense” into Modecai; didn’t Haman have the authority to execute him for his insolence?

Haman, in his arrogance and pride, decided not to challenge Modecai directly, but to wipe out his whole race. In a plot eerily similar to the one carried out many centuries later in Nazi Germany, Haman decreed that Modecai’s people, the Jews, should be exterminated.

Modecai paled at the news. Still he held steadfastly to his refusal to dishonor his God by bowing before a mere man. In the end, through a twist utterly characteristic of the Lord, God honored Modecai and exalted him before the very people who had begged him to compromise his principles.

Be Blessed and be a Blessing,

Cheryl

From “The Maxwell Leadership Bible,” NKJV, John C. Maxwell, p. 620.

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