To Mask or not to Mask

I don't wear masks except in places where it is required to enter, such as the doctors office.

However, I do not believe it is right for Christians to make a fuss when they are asked to wear one in a store or an office.

I heard a story, I have changed it up a little because it doesn't matter who it was but it is an important lesson for believers.

There was an account of someone refusing to wear a mask where he worked. He had no medical issues he just didn't like it. The boss told him to leave the store for refusing to wear one.

If I were working there I would obey the boss. Since it is not a sin to wear one, then I believe God would want me to obey the law coming from my boss.

The masks are a little uncomfortable but I don't see anyone passing out on the streets or in the stores from wearing them. I was required to wear one to the clinic for some tests. I smiled happily to the nurse who asked me to put it on and took it out of the box.

You see, I don't agree with the masks either, but my Christian witness of joy and compliance means more to me that a rule about a mask. I have more important messages for others, that is the message of the gospel, I don't ever want a meaningless rant to spoil my testimony.

Sometimes we can take stands for things that don't matter just because we feel foolish doing it when we don't believe its necessary.

There is a measure of rebellion to refuse to honor the wishes of others merely because we disagree.

We don't take our shoes off when we come into our house and we don't require anyone else to do it. However, when we go to the home of others who do it, we stop to do it too.

Life is full of rules and lost choices. We do not have the freedom to speed on the freeway, park our car on the sidewalk, walk down the middle of the street, and many other things, we have accepted these laws because they are not sinful nor do they harm us and in most cases, they are for our own safety. The mask thing is up for debate but that is not the issue here. The issue is protecting our Christian witness by complying with things that are not sin and not against our God so that our witness will not distract from the gospel.

Those who work in the fast-food industry are required to wash their hands and I am so glad they do. This is a loss of freedom to act like a pig. We do it because it is the right thing to do to protect others from disease.

A mask for the born again believer is nothing worthy of argument or fighting. Let's allow the unbelieving community to see us caring more about them than we do about the little loss of freedom.

Sometimes I think there is pride involved in making sure everyone knows that we don't let anyone push us around. Let go of pride and just focus on the witness.

1 Corinthians 9:19-23
19 For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more.
20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law;
21 to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law.
22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may, by all means, save some.
23 I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it."