BLESSINGS FROM FOLLOWING SPIRITUAL ADVICE

My Dear Precious Child, Paul wrote in his letter to the Roman believers that they must extend a kind welcome to the people who were weak in faith and to not engage in doctrinal disputes with them. He reminded them that to a person who has strong faith, he can eat anything, but a person who is weak in faith eats only vegetables. So, he wrote, a person who will eat anything must not ridicule the person who abstains from certain foods, and the person who abstains from certain foods must not judge the person who eats everything. He wrote, after all, that I welcome into My family the people who are weak in faith, so who are you to pass judgment upon another man's worker? His employer alone judges whether he or she stands or falls. And stand, he or she will, for the Lord is able to make him or her stand. (Romans 14:1-4) One person regards a certain day as better than another day and another person considers all days alike. So each person must be certain that he is true to his own conscience. The person who observes the religious holidays does so to honor Me, and the person who eats does so to honor Me, and he gives thanks to Me. Paul wrote that nobody lives as his own master, and nobody dies as his own master. While you live you are responsible to Me and when you die you die as My child. That is why Christ came to earth, so that He might be Lord of both the living and the dead. So how can you look down upon your brother and how can you judge your brother? You are all judged by your own judgment. (Romans 14:5-8; Matthew 7:1-4) Paul's emphasis was on giving an account to Me for your actions. Actually any judgment comes on you in the earth from seeds you have sown, good seeds produce good results and bad seeds produce bad results. He stressed his belief that nothing is unclean in itself, only when a person thinks it is unclean will it become unclean to him. Therefore you must not put a stumbling block in your brother's way by eating something that the brother considers unclean. If a person eats something that he considers unclean just because you are eating it, then you have ceased to follow the rule of love because you caused the devil's judgment to come upon a person when he or she ate something that he or she considered unclean. Your eating it was just because your freedom influenced the action. You should not let food that you eat bring ruin to a person for whom Christ died. Neither should you allow your privilege to become an occasion for blasphemy. The kingdom of God is neither meat nor drink, but it is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Whoever serves Me in that way, Paul stressed, pleases Me and wins the esteem of people. You should, then, make it your aim to work for peace with all people and to strengthen them like they strengthen you. (Romans 14:14-18) Paul's matters of principle are noteworthy for you to heed. They keep you attached to My kingdom and also they produce good products from the good seeds you have sown with people. Your Father of Practical Matters