When I fly on an airplane (actually, that’s the only way
that I fly), the flight attendant always goes through the emergency drill
instructions. I usually try to tune her
out because I could probably give her speech from memory. But one part sticks out in my memory: “please
put on your oxygen mask first, and then help others around you.” Now that may seem selfish to you, but it
isn’t. If you don’t put on YOUR mask
first, you will obviously pass out and not be able to help anyone else with
their mask. Duh! Hey, that’s the way it is with the Christian
life as well. We must first examine
ourselves and get our own hearts right BEFORE we can assist anyone else. That’s one of the main points of communion:
we must examine ourselves first. Paul
said it well in I Corinthians 11:28 “But let a man examine himself, and so let
him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.”
God can only use a clean life.
Look at your life first, and then help others. Don’t TELL someone how to
live the Christian life; SHOW them how to live the Christian life.
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