Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—1 Corinthians 7:32-40
by: Maryann Palmer.
“I would like you to be free from concern,” Paul says. He reminds the Corinthians that marriage binds people to this world. Single people may more easily focus on the things of the Lord, without family demands. “The time is short” and we need to keep our minds on things above (Colossians 3:2), whether we consider the “end of the age,” or the end of an individual life. It’s so easy to be distracted and fall into spiritual complacency that Paul emphasizes where our focus needs to be. Only in that way can we be truly free from concern.