“But we’re not going to start demanding now what we’ve always had a perfect right to. Our decision all along has been to put up with anything rather than to get in the way or detract from the Message of Christ.” – 1st Corinthians 9:12 (The Message Bible)
An article in The Consumerist1 reports about a Wal-Mart customer refusing to show his receipt because, by legal rights, he did not have to. We all have rights – Yes! Some are offered by our country of residence, still others are given to us by our creator.
But we who have given our lives (rights) to Christ have a bigger purpose – to bring honor to Christ and to further his kingdom.
There are times to voluntarily yield rights in a spirit of cooperation, love, and understanding. Knowing when is a matter of maturity and good judgment.
Sure, the guy at Wal-Mart won the fight but in so doing he made everyone else wait, ruined the day of a nice man only trying to do his job and came across looking like a jerk for no good reason.
Sometimes there are higher principles to stand on.
– fritz
1 – “Calm Man Successfully Buys TV And Denies Wal-Mart Receipt Checkers” by Ben Popkin, The Consumerist, March 7th 2011
“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and 
