Good Day to all!

I’ve been thinking lately about how often we get hung up on “right and wrong”. There will always be right and wrong. We’ll never get away from that. But just how important is it? When you look at the big picture – the grand scheme of things – just how important is “right and wrong” when it comes to relationships?

Let me clarify for those who already have made their decisions based on “right and wrong”:  I’m not talking about the kinds of issues that determine a person’s eternal condition here. I’m talking about issues that range from whether it was a foul during the ball game,  whether he or she said something the right way or not, whether Adam had a belly-button or not or even about subjects like abortion, tongues, laying on of hands, women pastors/leaders, etc.

This is what I see:  one person gets into a “disagreement” with another about an issue and things get a little hot. Both of them may say something that isn’t “right”, and all the sudden there is a wedge in their relationship. It happens all the time.

Person “A” was 95% right. Person “B” was the same amount wrong. Person “A” is supposed to be “more mature” than person “B”. And yet he/she is more concerned with how the other person was wrong than about the 5% he/she was wrong in!

My wife has a saying that has stuck with me for quite some time now:  “Sometimes, a person has to take the blame in order to walk blameless.”

How often does the Lord sit upon the throne and say “Why won’t one of you simply ‘be the bigger person’ and own up to where YOU are wrong first?”

If I was only 5% wrong, how far will it take me and the person I am in relationship with if I take ownership of my 5% and make it right? Isn’t this like “laying one’s life down for a friend”? Isn’t this “esteeming the other as more important than myself”?

I’ve said it so many times:  We need to get over ourselves.

Getting so caught up in what/who’s “right” and what/who’s “wrong” seems to cause more trouble than help. It seems to me that it is an awful lot like the trouble brought about when Adam and Eve partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil – (or could I say “right and wrong”?)

For an excellent blog entry from a friend of mine on this subject about the tree of knowledge . . . check out Ken Mullis at http://www.kenmullis.com/blog/2007/05/laying-ax-to-root.html

So what do YOU think?

Be blessed!