Reading: Romans 14, 15, 16
My Verse: "Then let us no more criticize and pass judgement on one another, but rather decide and endeavor never to put a stumbling block or an obstacle or a hindrance in the way of a brother." (14:13)
Lord, I like and so need the teaching here. I often sturggle in this area. I know I am to live my life so that I am an example - a testimony of Your Grace.
Where I struggle is that I sometimes think I know a better way for someone. Then I proceed to 'offer' advice . . . When I look back at those instances I wonder at myself! . . . the sheer audacity! No wonder the advice was received with anger and rebuff!
Lord, this teaching is so important! We are all of us in a different place. You have made us to be each so unique, we respond to our situations differently. And You know this and treat us and meet us where we are. I am so thankful and grateful for that!
How I need to keep uppermost in my mind the fact that we each of us are answerable to You on that final day. "And so each of us shall give an account of himself to God." (14:12) Help me Lord to look at each person as Your special project. You are working in their life as You will. I am to pray for them that they respond to You and Your love. "Pray at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer. To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints." (Eph. 6:18)
Lord, I pray wisdom and discernment here. as Paul said, "We . . . ought to bear with the failings and the frailties and the tender scruples of the weak; and not to please ourselves." (15:1)
Forgive me my moments of intolerance. For You, Lord Jesus, bear with all my deficiences and flubs!
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
My Verse: "Then let us no more criticize and pass judgement on one another, but rather decide and endeavor never to put a stumbling block or an obstacle or a hindrance in the way of a brother." (14:13)
Lord, I like and so need the teaching here. I often sturggle in this area. I know I am to live my life so that I am an example - a testimony of Your Grace.
Where I struggle is that I sometimes think I know a better way for someone. Then I proceed to 'offer' advice . . . When I look back at those instances I wonder at myself! . . . the sheer audacity! No wonder the advice was received with anger and rebuff!
Lord, this teaching is so important! We are all of us in a different place. You have made us to be each so unique, we respond to our situations differently. And You know this and treat us and meet us where we are. I am so thankful and grateful for that!
How I need to keep uppermost in my mind the fact that we each of us are answerable to You on that final day. "And so each of us shall give an account of himself to God." (14:12) Help me Lord to look at each person as Your special project. You are working in their life as You will. I am to pray for them that they respond to You and Your love. "Pray at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer. To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints." (Eph. 6:18)
Lord, I pray wisdom and discernment here. as Paul said, "We . . . ought to bear with the failings and the frailties and the tender scruples of the weak; and not to please ourselves." (15:1)
Forgive me my moments of intolerance. For You, Lord Jesus, bear with all my deficiences and flubs!
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
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