Control Issues

Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
1 Cor. 6:12-15

As children of God we have freedom in Christ. If we look at the Old Testament, we see a people who were tied to laws. There was certain food they could not eat, places they could not be, and people they shouldn't talk to. We are no longer under the Law of the Old Testament, but rather we have freedom in Chirst. We are free to eat what we want, be were we want to be, and talk to who ever we want.

But... just because we have freedom we shouldn't take advantage of it. The simple definition of Grace is forgiveness. We have been forgiven of our sins, and God will never throw them back in our face. But that doesn't mean we can do what we want trusting that it'll be ok with God as long as we ask forgiveness later. We are still to not do anything that can be sin.

In the same way, just like we have been given freedom in Christ, we have to be careful to always put God first. If there is anything in your life that is more important than God, you don't have to get rid of it, just make God more important than it.

Feel free to share your thoughts

-eva