To Each Their Own Journey!

I didn't bear my testimony today, but not because I didn't have a life altering week! It all started with my reading Romans Chapter 14. I can't believe this scripture has been there all my life, and I just stumbled upon it. So many of my own term oils were resolved with just that one chapter of scripture. I truly felt like I could brush off all the hurtful judgements that have been cast upon me, and have strength to rise above all the hurts I have felt lately. All the insecurities I have had, were able to be looked at as unnecessary. I was told this week that someone didn't like because I believe something diffrent than they did. It really made me feel so bad because it was so petty. Then I read this. The opening of Romans:14 says:

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye,

but not to doubtful disputation.

{We should accept others wholeheartedly.}

For one believeth that he may eat all things:

another, who is weak eateth herbs.

Let not him that eateth dispise him that eateth not;

and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth;

for God hath received him.

{We all have diffrent reasons for why we do the things we do, but to each, their journey is their own. We must find our own path through this life and those paths will not all be the same. What matters is that what you believe, you hold true to. What works for you and where the Holy Ghost leads you, you go. Your path may not be the same as your neighbors, and that is okay. What is important is that we don't judge others for where they are in their journey. In the end the destination is the same.}

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.

One man esteemeth one day above another;

another esteemeth every day alike.

Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

For none of us liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself...

For to this end Christ both died and rose, and revived,

that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

But why dost thou judge thy brother?

or why dost thou set at nought thy brother?

for we shall all stand before the judgement seat of Christ.

{I have been so irritated lately about how one person can think that they are more important than another to the point that they look down their nose them. Are we not all children of God. Does he not love us all the same. In the end will it matter who you were on this earth? No, just how you acted. Who do we represent? As a baptized member of the Church of Jesus Christ we are his representative, we bear his name. We should emulate his life. He loved all! The sinner, the saint the poor the weak, the powerful, the strong. }

Let us not therefore judge one anther any more:

but judge this rather,

that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus,

that there is nothing unclean of itself;

but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean to him it is unclean.

{Loved that part right there! It doesn't matter if we think what someone does is right or not, or something we would or wouldn't do, If they feel it is important to them, we should respect that and not try to make them stumble, but support them. Ultimately, it is the Holy Ghost who can help you to understand if you are on your own right path. Prayer, scripture study. That is how you can know.}

For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men. Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peach and things wherewith one may edify another.

{I highly suggest reading this whole chapter it was so good. I came away with a renewed strength to accept others for who they are and where they are at in this life and to just love them. Love them like Christ loves us all.}

It truly is my testimony that Christ is our Saviour. It is because of him that we can repent and be forgiven for the large and small mistakes that we make each day, and because of that we can return and live with our Father in Heaven again. I so look forward to the day that I will see his face, but I will not know anymore then of his love for me than I do now! He is my strength and salvation.