Ever Seen a Confused Soldier?

Are you living for God or the World or for God and the world?

When you try to live for both you become that poor confused soldier in the Civil War who couldn't decide what side he wanted to fight for. So he wore the coat from the Union (North) and the pants from the Confederates (South). Then he marched onto the battlefield and got shot at from both sides.

When you attempt to live in both worlds, you will end up living a miserable life and end up like the confused soldier.Living for both worlds—the life of compromise—is a dangerous thing. Just take a look at the life of Lot, the classic compromiser. Granted, he was a believer, but he made numerous mistakes. Lot lived in the wicked city of Sodom and eventually became a leader in the city. But he was so bound up in sin that when he went to tell his sons-in-law that the judgment of God was coming, they laughed and thought he was joking. (See — Genesis 19:14)There was no power in his witness, because he lived a compromised life.

Is that happening to you? Are you getting weaker and weaker spiritually? Do the things that once made you blush no longer shock you? Do you find yourself becoming more and more tolerant of that which is evil and less interested in that which is spiritual? Do you find that your words seem to have no effect on the nonbelievers you share them with? Such is the peril of the compromiser. They don't pull others up. Others pull them down.

“You deny Christ when you fail to deny yourself”