Accept One Another
“Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.” Paul (Romans 15:7)
Love and Lordship in Focus…Accepting each other can only be done as we die to self and surrender to Christ living in us…only then can we receive others as they are and bring praise to God!
“Accept One Another” (Romans 15:7)
I pray each of us takes faithfully and seriously God’s “One Another” commands in Scripture as we continue to fulfill the Greatest Commands…Loving God with all we are, knowing and loving who we are in Christ so that we can love “one another” in all the way that He has expressed, called and commanded us to do.
Building off the somewhat difficult command to stop judging one another (as we closed out last week’s post) we find Paul taking it a step further as he continues to wrap up his letter to the Roman believers. In Romans 15:7, The Holy Spirit, through Paul’s quill, instructs us to “accept one another, just as Christ has accepted you (us).”
You mean I not only have to stop judging those who don’t see and do things exactly as I do…I have to accept those who are different, odd, funny and quirky to me? Yes, just like Christ has accepted them and me in all my quirky, odd, funny and weird ways.
Oswald Chambers states this kind of “One Another” love as follows, “The first thing God does is to knock pretense and the pious pose right out of me. The Holy Spirit reveals that God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so. “Now,” He says to me, “show the same love to others” — “Love as I have loved you.” “I will bring any number of people about you whom you cannot respect, and you must exhibit My love to them as I have exhibited it to you.”
“Accept one another as Christ has accepted you.” The Apostle Paul
May we love and accept others as Christ has done for us so they can know Him.
Food for Thought…Christ accepted me (us) warts, scars, brokenness, sin and all. Are we willing to show others His Love by accepting them in the same way that He accepts you?
Love in Action –
- Spend time with Him in His Word and prayer daily – read and study the Scriptures in this post as a way to start
- Ask The Holy Spirit to teach you
- What does it look like for you to accept others as Christ accepted you?
- How are you doing with those whom you find disagreeable, contradictory, negative, pessimistic, unrealistic, abrasive or just down right mean? Are you that way to anyone?
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Love and Lordship Prayer Focus…Heavenly Father, forgive me when I pick and choose those that I want to accept and then justify it using Your Word. Help me to receive and accept all others as You have done with me but also be willing to share Your Truth in Love so they will not remain where they are…just as You have changed me. In Jesus Name. Amen.