Doing What is Best

1 Corinthians 10:33
I, too, try to please everyone in everything I do. I don't just do what is best for me; I do what is best for others so that many may be saved. (NLT)

We have lived a life where what we decide and choose are about what will satisfy our needs and desires. This is basic human nature. When a baby comes into this world everything is about their needs. As parents we change, at least as far as the baby is concerned, and everything is about them.

We never get a solid night's sleep for the first year or more. Our brains are tuned to hear the slightest movement or noise from their room even if it is way down the hallway. Having spent nine months in darkness, they know nothing about the concept of day versus night. They just do their thing demanding food and diaper changes. It takes as while for them to get it. Stay awake when it is day and sleep when it is night.

When we are walking with Christ, our life is no longer "all about me". Jesus told us that what we do for the least of His children, we do for Him. Many of us take the time to reach out to those in our churches that are having hard times. In the holiday season, we make food baskets and even purchase presents for their children. This is good, but not what Paul is talking about.

It is the non-believer we are to be looking to do something for. This could be people from any walk in life. They could be doctors or lawyers, airplane pilots or bankers, waitresses or waiters, cooks or managers, or even the out of work or homeless.

We need to find a way to fit into their lives in some way doing what is best for them. Our life should model Jesus in all we do and say. As we fit into their life, Jesus also fits. Then God will open a door giving us an opportunity to share the Good News with them so they may be saved.