Sometimes people don’t make it easy to accept them. They can be bad tempered, selfish, critical, irritating, dismissive, aggressive and pompous. Sometimes you want to give them a piece of your mind; give them what they deserve—anything but acceptance. Hold on. Christ accepted you. Were you good, reasonable and acceptable? No, but He accepted you—flaws and all—and He still does! You say, ‘Somebody has to straighten these people out and require them to act right!’ Straightening people out isnt our department; accepting them is. God calls us to accept messed-up, obnoxious, misled, ‘just plain wrong’ people. You don’t have to approve of, like, or agree with them. There’s no elite, privileged, insider class. We occupy level ground. Our job is to accept people—and let God adjust them. Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you. Romans 15:7
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 23:45:12 +0000
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