What right?

Paul’s really messing with me. That’s probably what the church he was originally writing to thought when they first heard the words, “No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.” (1 Cor 10:24)

But, I’m talking about me. Paul’s really messing with ME.

Although I have certain unalienable rights, what good are those rights if they are no good for someone else? Or as Paul put it they, “cause anyone to stumble.”

In the coming week, are you willing to lay down your right to be right? Your right to post whatever you please? Your right to be heard? (I’m asking myself these questions, too.)

Maybe you’re thinking, that’s not fair.

You’re right.

But, as a reminder, if things were supposed to be fair, we’d be dead on a cross, instead of Jesus in our place.

So, maybe just maybe, if we follow Jesus, in the days and weeks ahead we should follow in Paul’s footsteps, and “Not seek our own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.” (1 Cor 10:33)

Think about it: What right do we have that is more important than that?