Refusing the Smallest Compromise
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– 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.
Cheryl
From “The Maxwell Leadership
Bible,” NKJV, John C. Maxwell, p. 620.
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