So, you know the saying "treading on someones toes"?
If for some reason you don't, it basically means getting in the way, annoying or offending someone or overstepping boundaries.
I pose to you a question.
What if we didn't have any toes?
I'm not talking literally (the answer:we fall over) but figuratively. What if we had nothing for others to step on? What if we were immune to offense? What if we were unable to be upset by others?
What a shift! How our lives, and the lives of those around us would change!! Imagine if we as christians took on Jesus ability to love others and lay himself down for them. Now this isn't saying people won't do things to offend us, but we can choose to let it affect us. We can show and demonstrate a different way of responding, of reacting to offense.
Sounds difficult hey? But if you look at the physical way we respond to having no toes, our spiritual or figurative response should be similar- We fall over! We are humbled. We are on our knees in front of the other person. Not to get our own way or proclaim our opinion, but to fall over and prostrate ourselves for the sake of love and relationship.
Because where does this all get us? What is the point? To illustrate love. To be more Christlike, and even in a more selfish sense, when we are offended and hold bitterness its like drinking poison and hoping it hurts the other person. We can choose to be humble, and value our relationship over our pride. And all of this can be in reference to our relationship with Jesus as well. Not having a boundary that He can't step over and ask us to do this or that.
Let's lop off our toes and fall to the ground instead shall we?
Let's learn to fight for the things worth fighting for, and value the things worth valuing.
Let's value The kingdom rather than our kingdom.
