Friday Reading: Romans 14 7-13

 

Key Verse: Romans 14 13
13  Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

 

Devotion:
How easy it is to follow on from what someone else is doing – just to go with it rather than take a step back and so “no”. No matter what station in life we are from, we all have to agree not to live for ourselves and to rather live for Christ. Christians cannot be people who are “self seeking”, that just does not compute with God; you are either for Him or against Him. Our business is not to please ourselves in as many ways as we can, but to please God – we need to keep Him in everything that we do!

 

But then, on the other side of the coin, we start to judge others because they do things wrong. That is certainly not our place to judge them! We can help them to see what they are doing wrong by applying the right things in our lives and encouraging them, but we have no place in telling them how bad they are... show them what God says about it, not what you think about it. God's word has been given to us so that we can learn from it and pass on that knowledge – not that we can have ammunition to judge others by!

 

No matter whether we are Christian or non-Christian, God is still our same God. He is God of all and we must remember that one day every knee will bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord. The last thing we want to do is to put someone off because they don't want to be “uptight” or “self-righteous” like us. Can you imagine having to confess to God how you have prevented people from coming to heaven just because you have thought that you were in some way better than someone else and that put them off! If we remembered that alone, we would not do half of the things that we do!

 

Points to Ponder:
Do you like pointing out others mistakes?
 
How many mistakes of your do you hear God pointing out (and you know He knows)?