My devotions

哥林多前书 10:23-24


甚么事情都可以作，但不是都有益处。

甚么事情都可以作，但不是都能造就人。

人不要求自己的好处，却要求别人的好处。



Everything is permissible"--but not everything is beneficial.

"Everything is permissible"--but not everything is constructive.

Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others.



哥林多前书 10:31-33



所以，你们或吃喝，或作甚么，一切都要为上帝的荣耀而行。

无论是犹太人，是希腊人，是上帝的教会，你们总不可使他们跌倒；

就好像我所作的一切，都是要使大家喜悦，不是要求自己的好处，

而是要求别人的好处，为了要使他们得救。



So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God--

even as I try to please everybody in every way.

For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.





These verses is like an arrow that pierce through me. When I was reading this verses, it 'struck' me deeply because it kind of reminds me of how egotistical I am. How I was always doing things that only benefits myself. And how unconstructive I am, how I 'accidently' hurt others when I was talking nonsense. Dear brothers and sisters, please forgive me for I am a heedless person, I'm sorry for all the things that I've said if it was hurtful. But once again these verses reminds me that do all things for the glory for God. So brothers and sisters, let us not seek our own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved, or at least let us not cause anyone to stumble with our mindless words or careless actions. And once again I pray that I, myself, will always hold on to these verses so that I would not hurt anyone with my heedless acts, and that I will always do things for the glory of God, remind me if I'd ever deviate, because I knew I always do for I'm weak, but thanks be to God that He is willing to guide me through all this... This is just a little sharing from me...I pray that whoever who read this will at least learn something from the verses.