Amen dear Sister! How can we sin against such love! We cannot. Then what is the problem? We forget about Jesus. What is the evidence of conversion from sinner to saint? It is that we manifest the character of our Savior. When? All of the time, but most especially when things are very difficult for us.
I really like Romans 15:1 shared in today's reading. It causes us to realize how much we need Jesus. When we have great difficulty with another, who has the greater responsibility to work the hardest to resolve the difficulty? The one who is the greatest. The one who thinks himself so very right. The one who thinks himself the strongest. In many cases both feel themselves the right one. So, both ought to bear with the infirmities of the other, but often neither are willing to do so.
What is the problem? Where is Jesus? He is not in the heart of either. How can this situation be averted? What our sister and Pastor Sean have shared from today's reading answers the question. "When we see Jesus, a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with grief, working to save the lost, slighted, scorned, derided, driven from city to city till His mission was accomplished; when we behold Him in Gethsemane, sweating great drops of blood, and on the cross dying in agony,—when we see this, self will no longer clamor to be recognized." It is glimpses of Jesus that strengthen us for the battle each day.
If we will behold Jesus daily, then we shall become as little children. Then we shall want to help those who are out of the way.
“We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.” Romans 15:1. No soul who believes in Christ, though his faith may be weak, and his steps wavering as those of a little child, is to be lightly esteemed. By all that has given us advantage over another,—be it education and refinement, nobility of character, Christian training, religious experience,—we are in debt to those less favored; and, so far as lies in our power, we are to minister unto them. If we are strong, we are to stay up the hands of the weak. Angels of glory, that do always behold the face of the Father in heaven, joy in ministering to His little ones. Trembling souls, who have many objectionable traits of character, are their special charge. Angels are ever present where they are most needed, with those who have the hardest battle with self to fight, and whose surroundings are the most discouraging. And in this ministry Christ’s true followers will co-operate.