The uncompromised faithfulness
"Now his father, King David, had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking, "Why are you doing that?" (NLT) 1 Kings 1:6
When I was in primary school, about grade 5, I lost a much-cherished friend. Rachael was a very kind young girl who knew what it meant to love and to be loved. She opened the eyes of three of us; Joshua, Daniel, and me. Such memory can never be lost. You may be wondering what she did that impacted our lives that much. Before I answer that, let's take a look some biblical characters who suffered because of compromised faithfulness.
It was said of Adonijah “...his father, King David, had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking, "Why are you doing that?...” this means that Adonijah had never been checked or rebuked by his father no matter what he was doing. Such an attitude was as fatal to him as it was with the two sons of Eli; Hophni and Phinehas (1 Kings 1:6, I Sam. 2:12-4:18).
Today, in many homes and in relationships, a young girl mars the beauty of early womanhood by a flippant disregard of her parents’ wishes; a growing-up son is callous about his father’s counsel and his mother’s anxiety and happily ignores the corrections of his friends as he drifts away upon the sea of vice; relationships are filled with lies and allurements in order to please the other.
Beloved, how have you dealt with faithfulness; has it been one of a compromise to please people to the detriment of their own future or one of a loving discipline to bring life into already healed wounds?
God punished the house of Eli by removing the priesthood from his family and his children suffered death. Adonijah died of evil ambitions all because of a compromised faithfulness. What would become of that friend you are trying to hide the truth from? Parents, are you leaving an everlasting legacy for your children by showing them the right way? As we ponder over these questions, let us note that;
A compromised induction of character will lead to a
• destructive seduction of behavior which will later lead to an
• irreversible reduction of life.
My friend, Rachael, always shared what she had to make sure we did not starve to death but she also gave us godly counsel on how to use the little that we had from her to survive the following day for no man knows what tomorrow brings. May God help us to so that we may not compromise faithfulness to another.
Flirting with the truth is catastrophic even when faithfulness is the motive.