It doesn’t matter what it costs. Nothing in your life, nothing in my life, is worth compromising our LORD and Savior. Being faithful to Him is our highest call and greatest honor; and compromising is always a mistake.
That’s something I learned many years ago working alongside my father in the faith, Brother Oral Roberts. I heard him talk about spiritual excellence and faithfulness many times. One thing he often said about it still burns in me like a hot iron.
“What you compromise to keep, you will eventually lose.”
That’s a spiritual law. It’s absolute fact. Its reciprocal is also true: If you stay connected to God by faith in His WORD and refuse to compromise, He’ll see to it you come out a winner every time—and He’ll do it under the most impossible circumstances.
Look at what happened next in the story of Daniel and you’ll see what I mean. His enemies actually conspired to use his uncompromising faith against him. They went to the king and said: “[We] have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not” (verses 7-8).
King Darius granted their request. He signed the decree and put a law into effect that, for 30 days, turned Daniel’s prayer life into a death sentence.
How did Daniel respond?
When he knew the law had been signed, “he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime” (verse 10).
Daniel wasn’t moved by the threats at all! He kept praying just like always—and he didn’t try to keep his prayers a secret. He didn’t pull his curtains and close his shutters. He kept them open so anyone who wanted could hear him.
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