Self

To have such lawsuits at all is a real defeat for you as Christians. Why not just accept mistreatment and leave it at that? It would be far more honoring to the Lord to let yourselves be cheated.

1^st Corinthians 6:7 Living Bible

The Message reads this way, And here you are taking each other to court before people who don’t even believe in God! How can they render justice if they don’t believe in the God of justice?

It’s not always about our so-called rights. Yours, mine or otherwise. It’s supposed to be more about preferring one another in love. Laying down our lives for each other. Easy to say, but completely different when trying to walk it out in faith. 

Father,

           Help me to be able to lay down my “self” and selfish, so-called rights. Help me to see others as those who are trying their best, but who still make mistakes. Keep me focused on the truth that if there was never going to be a need for forgiveness, we wouldn’t have received it or the commandment to forgive. Help me to remember that I am usually first in line to need it. I want to love others as You love us. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen