Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)
Romans 15:7-9
Therefore accept one another, just as the Messiah also accepted you, to the glory of God. Now I say that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of the truth of God, to confirm the promises to the fathers, and so that Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles, and I will sing psalms to Your name. (HCSB)
I am amazed at the authority with which the Word of God speaks. God is speaking to us through Paul with a command and not a choice. What is this command? It is this, “accept one another,” and what is acceptance, it is ownership. If you sign a contract to buy a car, you accept the terms that come with it, and you are legally responsible for it.
Now here are some terms that come when we accept Christ. Jesus commands that as He accepted us with all our faults and shortcomings, so we must accept one another. It means that we take ownership of each other’s lives, and that we invest something in each other. As a car needs to be provided certain things to run properly, we also must be serviced.
That service takes place not just on Sunday’s, but on everyday of the week. God says that we are to be roadside assistants to one another on life’s highway. We all run out of gas at times, and we throw a belt, or get overheated and have to pull over for a minute, and that is when we need each other the most. We accept ownership of each other, and stop on our life’s journey to make sure that we all make it safely home…God’s Blessings.
Pastor William
William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)
Romans 15:7-9
Therefore accept one another, just as the Messiah also accepted you, to the glory of God. Now I say that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of the truth of God, to confirm the promises to the fathers, and so that Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles, and I will sing psalms to Your name. (HCSB)
I am amazed at the authority with which the Word of God speaks. God is speaking to us through Paul with a command and not a choice. What is this command? It is this, “accept one another,” and what is acceptance, it is ownership. If you sign a contract to buy a car, you accept the terms that come with it, and you are legally responsible for it.
Now here are some terms that come when we accept Christ. Jesus commands that as He accepted us with all our faults and shortcomings, so we must accept one another. It means that we take ownership of each other’s lives, and that we invest something in each other. As a car needs to be provided certain things to run properly, we also must be serviced.
That service takes place not just on Sunday’s, but on everyday of the week. God says that we are to be roadside assistants to one another on life’s highway. We all run out of gas at times, and we throw a belt, or get overheated and have to pull over for a minute, and that is when we need each other the most. We accept ownership of each other, and stop on our life’s journey to make sure that we all make it safely home…God’s Blessings.
Pastor William
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