Friday, April 18, 2014

Knowing God - God Makes Us Stand



Rom 14:4
Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.


When a believer judges another believer based upon individual conviction and conclusion, the Lord will defend that person if the person is not in error.  This verse is not talking about blatant sin but that which one believer has concluded is not at the level he or she thinks another believer should live up to.  We learn from this verse that the Lord is able to make him stand.  A believer does not have to defend himself to another believer when it comes to matters of conscience.  A believer answers to His own Master and it is His Master that will make him stand.  We don’t answer to everyone else’s expectations on our lives.  We are seeking to obey Jesus.  When you are judged or criticized, go to your Master.  Ask Him what He thinks of the judgment and then focus on pleasing Him.  When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

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