“’Everything is permissible for me’,
but not everything is beneficial. ‘Everything is permissible for me’, but I
will not be mastered by anything.”
We all have things in our lives
that tempt us, whether it is junk food, television shows, money, or a certain
group of friends. While sometimes these things may not be bad in and of
themselves, it is when they begin to have mastery over us, consuming our
thoughts and actions, that these things become a problem.
The church in Corinth had been quoting
and misapplying the phrase, “Everything is permissible for me,” as a way to
justify the sins they were committing. Paul’s response was to remind them that
not everything they did was beneficial and that they should not allow anything
to have mastery over them.
While junk food is fine in moderation, we
should not let our eating habits become unhealthy because 1 Corinthians 6:19
says, “Did you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is
in your whom you have received from God? You are not your own…” And while money
itself is not inherently evil, Luke 16:13 tells us that, “No servant can serve
two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted
to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.” So do not
let your temptations draw you away from the service of God. He is the only Lord
we need in our lives.
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