As I trek through Romans, I halt at Romans 14.
"Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgement on disputable matters. One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand."
That must convict EVERY Christian I know. This is the 3rd day I've spent on this chapter, re-reading it, praying for clarification. It's so rich. The notes in my study Bible say "In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; in everything, love." As Christians, I believe we spend more time trying to label people and tear them down, than we do loving them and building them up. It's human nature - it's the flesh. It's so hard to just LOVE and it cannot be done apart from the Spirit. Shall this work in me ever be finished? Alas, it will the day I meet Jesus face to face, and not a minute before. Pressing On Toward the Goal -
