1 Samuel 11:2 KJV
And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
What a horrible price to pay for life. The Ammonite has more in mind than merely to render these men no good to defend themselves from here on out. He specifically wants to bring reproach upon Israel. As if it were not enough that the men of this city would be subjects of another land and they would be handicapped for the rest of their lives; Nahash intends to reproach the people who have been chosen of the Lord.
And the elder of Jabesh had to consider it. Rather than standing as men in defense of their families and in faith toward their God, they apparently would have accepted this fate had not someone come to rescue them.
How terrible are the compromises Christians make today to have peace with this world.
We do spiritual damage to our families
We cripple ourselves and servants of the Lord and worse
We reproach the name of our own Saviour
We deprive ourselves of the depth of insight in the things of God all because we choose peace with this world rather than to trust the Lord.
Would to God we would stand as men for God.
And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
What a horrible price to pay for life. The Ammonite has more in mind than merely to render these men no good to defend themselves from here on out. He specifically wants to bring reproach upon Israel. As if it were not enough that the men of this city would be subjects of another land and they would be handicapped for the rest of their lives; Nahash intends to reproach the people who have been chosen of the Lord.
And the elder of Jabesh had to consider it. Rather than standing as men in defense of their families and in faith toward their God, they apparently would have accepted this fate had not someone come to rescue them.
How terrible are the compromises Christians make today to have peace with this world.
We do spiritual damage to our families
We cripple ourselves and servants of the Lord and worse
We reproach the name of our own Saviour
We deprive ourselves of the depth of insight in the things of God all because we choose peace with this world rather than to trust the Lord.
Would to God we would stand as men for God.
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