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Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Thursday, November 11, 2021
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Accepting Other Christians Bible Verse:Romans 14:1-13 (ESV) "Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment 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. One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.’” So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. " Message:
Christians sometimes pass judgment on other Christians; they may criticize others in their own church, or may condemn the practices of people who worship in a different denomination. Paul here states that criticizing other Christians because of such matters is completely unacceptable. Every person’s relationship with God is a matter that exists only between that person and God.
Do we seek to put ourselves in God’s place and make judgments for Him? Where Christ has forgiven sinners, who are we to judge their forgiveness?
Christian racial harmony
Many priests, ministers, pastors, and other church leaders, pass judgment on other denominations of Christianity, disputing their interpretation of the Bible. Sometimes this rises to the level of official policy of the denomination. I, personally, turn a deaf ear when I hear this; maybe I disagree with some of the doctrine that is espoused in other churches (or even my own!), but what Paul is saying here is, in effect, that doctrine is not terribly important.
“Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified,” Paul tells us right off the bat in 1 Corinthians. Theology often makes what one might call “the Greek mistake”, confusing faith with logic. Theology and doctrine are the product of men’s minds, including some brilliant minds. But Christ didn’t come to earth to save smart people. He came to save all who would follow him.
Opinions on this will differ; and anyone should certainly be fully convinced that the church he attends will help him find Christ and, ultimately, a place in heaven. But these words are straight from the Bible and opinions cannot differ: “Let us stop passing judgment on one another.”
Meditation : Prayer : Now, to God the Father, who first loved us, and made us accepted in the Beloved; to God the Son, who loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood; to God the Holy Ghost, who sheds the love of God abroad in our hearts, be all love and all glory in time and to all eternity......Amen |
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