At the US Army Military academy West Point, there is a prayer that the cadets pray
"Make us choose the harder right, instead of the easier wrong, and never to be contended with half truth when whole truth can be won. Endow us with courage that is born of loyalty to all that is noble and worthy, that scorns to compromise with vice and injustice and knows no fear with right and truth are in jeopardy. "
What sticks out to me is that term....''the harder right''.
It can be hard to do the right thing.
Fear and peer pressure can affect our decision. Fear of the unknown and of what others might think. We content ourselves some times with a half way decision, one that is compromised by what we know to be wrong, what we know is not right.
A compromised built on a flimsy foundation.
If you need to get something that is out of reach, you would use a stepladder rather than a desk chair.
But why?
- Both are on the ground
- Both will allow you to obtain an additional height
The reason is the foundation.
The chair has wheels that are unstable and will move causing you to fall.
But 4 sturdy legs of the stepladder provide the proper balance to reach the height you want to reach.
In our walk for God, do we have a firm foundation or one that is unstable?
We need to make our minds up to serve him without compromise. If we allow things of the world to keep a toehold in our hearts. We will bog ourselves down
Until we make up our minds to fully sell out to the Lord, to fully give everything to God... we will not go forward.
If your walk with God is not where it should be, examine your priorities.
