Do you remember as a child drinking Kool-Aid on a hot summer day? Oh how my mind can take me back as a boy growing up in Phoenix Arizona, where the temperatures would soar to 110, some times 120 on any given day, and Mom would make a big picture of Kool-Aid and me and my brother Mike, and my sister Donna, would drink it like it was going out of style, because it was cold and the taste was great.

But there was a time that I went into the house and attempted to make a picture of Kool-Aid myself, and I didn’t realize it but I put too much water in it and it tasted awful. The water in the picture was still purple, representing grape which was the flavor of choice, but it was watered down and did not taste right, in all reality it would have been better if we would of just drank water . Simply what happened is the Kool-aid was diluted and it had lost its flavor, and quite frankly it just wasn’t any good at all.

This is what compromise does to us as Christians, it causes us to be watered down and tasteless. We have an appearance of being refreshing but lack the true flavor of our Savior, as a result of this very thing, many people would rather reach for something else to quench their spiritual thirst.

The word dilutes means to lessen the strength by mixing with something else. Compromise dilutes our lives; it lessens our spiritual strength by mixing it with the cares of this world, and many times sin. All of us can honestly say that there is a great need in the body of Christ as a whole, for the true authentic taste of God to be in the lives of us believers, more now than ever because the world is thirsty for something to quench their spiritual thirst, and that may just be you.

We cannot allow compromise to creep in to our lives because there is too much at stake, and the world is coming to drink.

God Bless you,

Pastor Mark