INSIGHT FOR TODAY WITH CHUCK SWINDOLL.
Chuck Swindoll’s ‘Insight for Today’ Daily Devotional is here. “Insight for Today” is a daily devotional written by Chuck Swindoll
The Topic of Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional 20th May 2022 is “The Legal Swamp, Part One “.
Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 6:1–8.
When one of you has a dispute with another believer, how dare you file a lawsuit and ask a secular court to decide the matter instead of taking it to other believers! 2 Don’t you realize that someday we believers will judge the world? And since …
TODAY’S INSIGHT – 20TH MAY 2022.
Law never fails to turn me off.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I don’t think we need it . . . it’s just that it leaves me cold. It frowns and demands. It requires and warns and threatens. With a grim glare, it dares us to forget its rules or even think about disobeying its regulations.
I know, I know. It protects us. It gives us recourse when we’ve been assaulted or abused. It’s the ultimate big stick we can wave in the face of an adversary. “I’ll sue!” has therefore become our favorite national slogan, which fits perfectly into our me-ism society.
“I’ve got my rights.”
“I’ve got it coming to me.”
“I don’t have to take that from you.”
Those are the overused words of our overkill generation. Parents are now being sued by their children. Teachers are being sued by their pupils. Coaches are being sued by their players. Spouses are being sued by their partners, and it isn’t limited to unbelievers. Christians are now neck deep in the legal swamp. Christian neighbors sue each other. Christian faculty members are now filing suit against the administrations of Christian schools.
Churches not only sue one another, congregations now sue their pastors—and vice versa. Parishioners who have complaints about the counseling they received from their ministers are turning to the courts to voice their anger and to seek a financial settlement.
Yes, brothers and sisters in the family of God are actually pressing charges and demanding their rights . . . sometimes to the exclusion of any attempt to reconcile face to face. You’d think 1 Corinthians 6:1-8 is either written in hieroglyphics or is no longer considered part of the biblical text.
ADRIAN ROGERS LOVE WORTH FINDING DEVOTIONAL 20TH MAY 2022
Now, don’t think I’m naive enough to believe we Christians don’t need law or that we never have reason to complain . . . or that I’m blinded to the fact that there are rip-off con artists—wolves in sheep’s clothing—who prey on and exploit flocks. We must be discerning, alert, ever mindful that human depravity must be held in check, and on occasion it must be exposed.
But the way we go about it, the spirit with which we handle our conflicts, the attitudes we exhibit while working through the process of reconciliation are crucial . . . that is where our Christianity is often hung out to dry. And that is where we have an opportunity to exhibit the astounding grace of Christ.
Is the big courtroom win worth it? Jesus said, “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?” (Matthew 16:26).
Tomorrow we’ll take a look at God’s alternative to the legal swamp.
About Chuck Swindoll Daily Devotional “Today’s Insight”.
Today’s Insight is written by Charles R. Swindoll. Charles R. Swindoll has devoted his life to the accurate, practical teaching and application of God’s Word and His grace. Since 1988 he has served as the founder and senior pastor-teacher of Stonebriar Community Church in Texas, but his listening audience extends far beyond a local church body. The radio broadcast of this devotional program has aired for more than 35 years. Read more.
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