WTW 2022
19 January
1 Corinthians 7
Released To Serve
An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs—how he can please the Lord. But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife— and his interests are divided. I am saying this for your own good…that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:32b,33-34a,35a,c
Concerned with, focused on, preoccupied with, cares about…
These describe a married man’s ordinary stance toward his wife and family. This does bind him more toward the world than to the LORD. By God’s grace, a brother in the LORD can discern this by God’s Spirit and be released from inordinate concern for the things of this world.
By this grace, this brother can turn from these to a liberty by which he will be released. He will be released from his frustrated concern for his wife and family’s worldly cares in order to become the servant of all.
This servant of all will be in keeping with the servant leadership which JESUS revealed. In this way, such a brother will much more fully meet the needs of all those around him, including the brotherhood, including wife and children in the brotherhood.

