Don't Trip!

I was thinking the other day about something. You know we hear it preached all the time that we need to be careful that we are not a stumblingblock. That we don't cause another believer to trip and fall in their walk with Christ. Well, some of the verses in I Corinthians 8 speak of meat and how this was a stumblingblock for other believers and if it was going to cause soemone to stumble then Paul said he wasn't going to eat it. Verse nine says, "But take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's become a stumblingblock to them that are weak." Somethings are simple as meat be a stumblingblock! Crazy! But I was thinking that not only we can be a stumbling block but there are probably things in our lives that are stumbling blocks for us. For some of us books may be a stumblingblock, the word stumblingblock in verse nine simply means an offence. Our books may be an offence to others but they also might be an offence to God. If we are spending too much time reading books then spending time with God then we have a problem. I just used books as an example but there are any number of things that could be used. What about t.v.? Video Games? Hanging out with friends? Listening to music? Any of these things could be a stumblingblock in our lives if we let it get out of control. I am reminded of the verse in Eph.5:16, "Redeeming the time, because the days are evil." So what is your stumblingblock? We all have them, but with the Lord's help we can get rid of them, maybe not fully but learn how to control those things that we struggle with.