“The land of the free and the home of the brave!”
What a great way to describe our great nation! We value the great freedoms our Constitution provides, which have been protected and secured by the blood and sacrifice of the brave men and women who have and continue to serve!
Take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 8:9
What a blessing God has given us in this great country!
Of course, our country isn’t perfect. We have more laws on the books that restrict freedom than most countries. We have more people incarcerated than most countries. To say we have some serious issues is an understatement.
For American Christians, we have a peculiar shortcoming: we value the freedoms in our country and the ultimate freedoms we have in Jesus, but we are not very conscientious about how we use them. That is to say, we love exercising our freedoms without much concern for how they may negatively affect others.
That may be acceptable secularly, but it is altogether wrong and inappropriate as Christians!
We are called to make sure that in the exercising of our freedoms in Jesus, we are not a stumbling block to others and their faith!
That means always putting the needs others before our own desires. It means being no obstacle to others seeing and following Jesus. We want to be the reason people see Jesus clearly. We want to be a help to those who may be struggling in their faith, not the reason they question it more.
And if that means we don’t get to exercise all our freedoms all the time as we want, so be it!
It’s not about us. It’s about Jesus.
Let’s keep that in mind – always!
Scriptures
- 1 Corinthians 8:1-13
