Me First?

“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.”

I Corinthians 6:12

Some ‘permissible’ things in our lives may actually cause us – or others – to stumble.

They can become distractions that draw our attention, energy and resources away from the necessary and vital.

It is easy to justify the permissible but tougher to turn away from it to those essential things in our lives.

It becomes even tougher still when it is not a question of how it impacts our walk but what it does to the walk of others.

We might think to ourselves –

‘The just need to grow up and stop judging me!’

This becomes our answer to what we conclude is their problem.

We fail to realize how selfish those thoughts are how they elevate the importance of our interests over anyone else’s’.

When you find this attitude prevalent meditate on this –

“...but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant.”

Philippians 2:7