Sanctification - Gods job, not ours

Sanctification -Gods job not ours

S - Romans 14

1 Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions. 2 One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only. 3 The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him. 4 Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

5 One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God. 7 For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself; 8 for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. 11 For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall give praise to God.” 12 So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God.

O- I think this is an critical clarification that Paul gives to us as Christians about how we are to behave, primarily amongst one another but also to others outside the church.  I understood that the message Christ delivered and the transformation that occurs in each one of us is different. We are all in the process of being sanctified by Christ that we are sanctified not necessarily through correction of others. So Paul tells us not to make that our day job because we will likely get it wrong. Here specifically  he speaks of some of the more familiar Old Testament habits of what to eat versus freedom in Christ that all is clean, will potentially drive a wedge between believers. And when believers start making it their day job to correct all that offend their values, Is when things go bad inside the church.

A-The application for me is of course to start with me. I need to make sure with my own family at home, my local family church , that I am first and foremost focusing on how God is working on me and not judging and correcting those around me. Now I have a role in how I raise my kids, even there I must put my trust In Christ that he is sanctifying them them by day.  In fact I can testify that I am at my worst when I spend my time judging and trying to correct, many times not helping their own walk with the Lord.  So what am I to do, I am to intercede through prayer, stop and discuss through conversation but not to judge or Condemn.

P-Dear heavenly father thank you for today’s devotion yet to be sealed to my heart. I pray Lord that you would continue to change my view of what is your truth in situations, so that I might see you and your work and others. I recognize and confess I have frequently judged incorrectly, because I was seeing  things through My own eyes. Lord help me to see the truth, and speak the truth in love. I pray all of this in Jesus Christ name amen