Worth Standing For

Matthew 17:27 KJV

Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

There are some things not worth standing for. 

Concerning the Temple Tax the Lord emphatically said that He was free from paying it (and implied the same for Peter- they were not strangers to God but children). But then Jesus instructed Peter to pay the tax "lest we should offend them".  He did not have to pay the tax but this was not an issue worth standing for. 

Sometimes we get the idea that every issue of right is an issue worth living, dying, going to jail or offending others. After all right is right; anytime, every time. That is true. But to offend, to do battle to take a stand over some issues tends to distort what is the more important issue which is the soul of lost men. 

• To fight over a political issue
• To fight over an authoritative issue
• To fight over a tax issue, is some cases
• To fight a moral issue

is to lose sight of the soul issue. 

To seek and to save the lost; to glorify God by preaching clearly His Word. These are the issues worth standing for.