“This is my body, which is broken for you” (1 Corinthians 11:24).

My sin broke Jesus’ body.

My unkindness, selfishness, disrespect, unrighteous anger, and on and on — they all led to the physical breaking of Jesus.

Yes, what was done (to Jesus) was done. It is not repeated each time some human fails. However, God Who Knows Everything knew and experienced then the evil even of today and tomorrow. My evil included.

My sin broke His body . . . and His broken body will break me from my sin.

I do not want my life — my thoughts, my words, my actions, my purposes, my goals — to cause God agony.

Neither do I want His sacrifice for me to be wasted. That is, wasted in the sense that I don’t allow it to do me any good.

When I am tempted to wrong, let me remember the breaking of Jesus.

“You can’t please everybody.”

How often I have heard that!

But what about this verse?

“Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved” (1 Corinthians 10:33).

As I recall, in other Scriptures, Paul says and/or shows that he did not try to please everybody.

So just what does the above verse mean?

I don’t know.

But I am challenged to pursue the good of another, even at the expense of my own good.