Neither group should pass judgment on the other. God has welcomed both groups into His family. How dare either group turn the other away? The Lord is the master of all of them, after all. None of them are master to the others, no matter whose faith is stronger or weaker. Each person should be fully convinced of his or her position on these issues and practice them to honor the Lord while giving thanks to God. This goes for both the abstainers and the consumers, both the observers of days and those who do not. Whatever we do, we should honor the Lord, because all of us in Christ belong to Him (Romans 14:3–9).
A key component of this teaching is the fact that we have no place to judge each other. A judgment day is coming for Christians when Christ will examine all our works. He will determine which of our deeds were worthwhile and which were worthless. Though our salvation in Christ is secure, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God for how we spent our days. We will not be judged according to the preferences of other believers (Romans 14:10–12) see: What does Romans chapter 14 mean?
Well, this fits right in with what went on while I was attending the church back in the early 80s. I had not only been judged, (harshly I had felt) and as a weak person trying to grow in my faith, these people-some of them, at least-were not practicing what Paul was saying there.
I cannot judge them but hope and pray that at some point over the last years, they got a better or clearer understanding of what judgment of others means for Christians that are always passing it on others. The Bible has some things to say about it and I have done at least one post on it in my blog.
The fact that this had been a hard experience for me to go through taught me important things that I wasn't learning in the church itself.
But hey, I am not perfect. And I have to watch passing judgment especially on things or people that I have no idea what I am talking about.
Let's face it. It's easy to do so we all have done it or are doing it.
Every time I find myself doing it, I always try to ask God for His forgiveness because I don't want to stand before him one day and have Jesus ask me why I did what I did on earth that was wrong.
Hello, Friends. There is a bit more that I want to bring up from the website asking: What does Romans Chapter mean? before I am done with it. And will do that in my next post. And so thank you for stopping by and hope you will be back for that post.
God bless, and have a safe and wonderful weekend.
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