<html><head></head><body><div><div><div>Romans 14;4-6<div><br></div><div><b>4. &nbsp;Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Master is able to make him stand.</b></div><div><b>5. &nbsp;One man &nbsp;esteems one day as better than another, while another man esteems&nbsp;all days alike. Let everyone be fully convinced in his own mind.</b></div><div><b>6. &nbsp;He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord, and gives things to God.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>The most important point to be gained from this passage is that we all are accountable to <i>“the Master.”</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>“And before him, no creature is hidden, but all are open and laid bear to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” &nbsp;</i>(Hebrews 4;13)</div><div><i>“For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?” &nbsp;</i>(1 Peter 4;17)</div><div><br></div><div>It is not our place to judge how another Believer honors and serves God, such judgement belongs to God, and God will judge humble repentant Believers in mercy. &nbsp;He will make them to stand in His own righteousness. &nbsp;(see, Psalm 1;5&amp;6 and Jude 1;24&amp;25)<i></i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Yesterday I asserted that God gives faith without measure to us all, but that weakness of faith is caused by human fear and ignorance. &nbsp;I stand by that; but we read in Romans 12;3 the following: <i>“ For by&nbsp;the Grace given to me I bid&nbsp;every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to <u>the measure of faith</u>&nbsp;which God has assigned him.”</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Here we touch&nbsp;upon the mystery of how weak, believing, forgiven, sinners themselves will limit the grace of God. &nbsp;Their own belief in the power of the amount of&nbsp;faith God gives them, impacts how much God can work through them. &nbsp;For them then, they ‘believe’ their faith is weak and limited and&nbsp;so it is. &nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Faith given us by God is unlimited, we in our thinking&nbsp;are the spiritual bottle-neck.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Realizing the great mercy of God to all us weak,&nbsp;believing, forgiven, sinners, we walk humbly with our merciful and wise&nbsp;Master and Judge, the Lord Jesus Christ, who sets us free from comparing ourselves to anyone but Him.</div><div><br></div><div>Note: &nbsp;This devotion is not an argument for doing away with Church Discipline, or dealing with sin in ourselves or others.</div><div><br></div><div>Prayer: &nbsp;Merciful Father, we rejoice in Your perfect judgements. &nbsp;Deliver us from putting ourselves into the Judgement Seat. &nbsp;Bless us to live in faith and love toward others who by faith seek to&nbsp;serve You in ways different from our own. &nbsp;In Jesus we pray, Amen.</div><div><br></div><div>Love,</div><div>Dad/Baba/Eric/Grandpa Pickle Pastor</div><div>“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word. &nbsp;God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><br></b><br><br><div><a href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&amp;c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&amp;af_sub1=Acquisition&amp;af_sub2=Global_YMktg&amp;af_sub3=&amp;af_sub4=100000604&amp;af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>

Romans 14;4-6
4.  Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Master is able to make him stand.5.  One man  esteems one day as better than another, while another man esteems all days alike. Let everyone be fully convinced in his own mind.6.  He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord, and gives things to God.
The most important point to be gained from this passage is that we all are accountable to “the Master.”
“And before him, no creature is hidden, but all are open and laid bear to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”  (Hebrews 4;13)“For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?”  (1 Peter 4;17)
It is not our place to judge how another Believer honors and serves God, such judgement belongs to God, and God will judge humble repentant Believers in mercy.  He will make them to stand in His own righteousness.  (see, Psalm 1;5&6 and Jude 1;24&25)

Yesterday I asserted that God gives faith without measure to us all, but that weakness of faith is caused by human fear and ignorance.  I stand by that; but we read in Romans 12;3 the following: “ For by the Grace given to me I bid every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith which God has assigned him.”
Here we touch upon the mystery of how weak, believing, forgiven, sinners themselves will limit the grace of God.  Their own belief in the power of the amount of faith God gives them, impacts how much God can work through them.  For them then, they ‘believe’ their faith is weak and limited and so it is.  
Faith given us by God is unlimited, we in our thinking are the spiritual bottle-neck.
Realizing the great mercy of God to all us weak, believing, forgiven, sinners, we walk humbly with our merciful and wise Master and Judge, the Lord Jesus Christ, who sets us free from comparing ourselves to anyone but Him.
Note:  This devotion is not an argument for doing away with Church Discipline, or dealing with sin in ourselves or others.
Prayer:  Merciful Father, we rejoice in Your perfect judgements.  Deliver us from putting ourselves into the Judgement Seat.  Bless us to live in faith and love toward others who by faith seek to serve You in ways different from our own.  In Jesus we pray, Amen.
Love,Dad/Baba/Eric/Grandpa Pickle Pastor“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word.  God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”




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