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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you. And even though “I am allowed to do anything,” I must not become a slave to anything. You say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” (This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.) But you can’t say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies.

1 Corinthians 6:12-13 (NLT)

This ends today’s reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

Anything goes.

It’s an attitude that has been around since the dawn of sin in the world for we can look across the landscape of the Bible and find people who felt they could do whatever they wanted to do without consequence, even people who were professed believers. Even the Jewish religious leaders of Jerusalem, those who were supposed to be the most devout God followers, decided it was okay to sanction the murder of Jesus, the one and only Son of their God.

This has always amazed me, how people claiming to be so pious could violate God so easily but this is what happens when Satan has his way with people. His will ends up being done instead the will of our Lord, the One who is the Maker and Master of all living things, and when Satan’s will is being done, sin is always produced.

Now, it’s very obvious that God did not endorse an “anything goes” life. Not even close. One only need remember the infamous ten commandments He laid out for the Israelite people at Mount Sinai through Moses to know that. God did not support people thinking they could do anything even though He did allow them the free will to make choices in life. Yes, technically they could do anything but not everything was good for them, physically or spiritually. There were inappropriate behaviors that could easily enslave a person and this would make sin more of a master over a person than the Lord.

This is the point Paul is making in his words to the Corinthian Christians. They were made for the Lord and for Him alone, and He expected them to honor Him in every way possible to include the way they used their bodies. God cares about our bodies just as much as He cares about our spirits and ultimately, He wants us to glorify and honor Him through everything we do.

Are you living your life as if anything goes?

If so, you really need to adjust your thinking and understand that the only actions truly approved by the Lord are the ones that He dictates through His will and Word. We find these behaviors in the scriptures and in particularly in the Gospels where we get to learn how Jesus did so we can model our lives after Him.

After all, isn’t being a Christian supposed to mean we strive to be Christ-like?

It’s the one way that we can show everyone that we were made for the Master and therefore live for Him in everything we do, even when the world would say that anything goes.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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