DAILY?READINGS: Deut. 28:38-68; Amos 5-6; Luke 14:25 to 15:10
I was chargeable to no man… I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you. 2 Corinthians 11:9
Paul set an example that we’d all do well to notice and imitate. Very few of us need any vocational training to be selfish. Many of us can admit to thinking of our various associations from a purely selfish viewpoint—assessing their value as to what we get from them. The biological definition of an organism that takes more from its environment than it gives is a “parasite”. The local body of Christ can often suffer from such a problem, so that honest introspection and self-examination is needed to ask, “Is it I, Lord?” —Rick Morse
All for Jesus, all for Jesus! All my being’s ransomed pow’rs:
All my tho’ts and words and doings, all my days and all my hours. —M. D. James