Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—1 Corinthians 7:25-31
by: Maryann Palmer.
This part of the letter seems to be Paul’s way of telling the Corinthian believers not to “sweat the small stuff,” not to get “engrossed” in the “things of the world.” In 1 Peter 2:11, we read, “Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul” (NIV). Don’t worry about the outward trappings, because “The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7b, NIV).