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My Daily Meditation For The Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

DECEMBER The Fourteenth THE SACRED USE OF LIBERTY

|Take heed lest this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling-block.| -- 1 CORINTHIANS viii.8-13.

That is a very solemn warning. My liberty may trip someone into bondage. If life were an affair of one my liberty might be wholesome; but it is an affair of many, and my liberty may be destructive to my fellows. I am not only responsible for my life, but for its influence. When a thing has been lived there is still the example to deal with. If orange peel be thrown upon the pavement, that is not the end of the feast. The man who slips over the peel is a factor in the incident, and my responsibility covers him.

I am, therefore, to consider both my deeds and their influence. How does my life trend when it touches my brother? In what way does he move because of the impact of my example? Towards liberty or towards license? To the swamps of transgression or to the fields of holiness? These are determining questions, and I must not seek to escape or ignore them. My brother is a vital part of my life. I must never shut him out of my sight. How is he influenced by my example? |If meat make my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth.|

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