Made All Things to All: Self-Denial

It is important and very needful to observe that when the Apostle declares that he was "made all things to all," it was entirely a matter of self-denial, and not of self-indulgence. He neither indulged himself, nor surrendered a single iota of the truth of God, but made himself servant to all for their good and God's glory. This is our model. May the Lord endow us with grace to imitate it. We are called to surrender, not only our points and angles, prejudices and predilections, but also our personal rights for the profit of others. This is the Christian's daily business.