We should do our best to be sober minded before God and serve him. While we do so, we may also become judgmental toward others. We may meet people we consider to have weaker faith than us. Some people are able to eat everything, while others are only able to eat vegetables. Should we judge based on what we think?

We may say we served God from our youth and that we served God with all our time. Or we may have many disciples or have given many offerings to God. We should not look down on those who are not able to do so. They will also stand before God, and they will stand because God will make them stand. We do not have any judgement over them. God is judge over us and them. Paul says in verse 4, "Who are you to judge someone else' servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall." We will give an account of ourselves to God. We should live before God rather than men. Rather than judging others, we should live before God.

While offering ourselves fully to God, we should not judge how others are doing before God. God is their judge, and in God's eyes, they will stand because they are God's servants, too.


Application: Lord, help us not to judge but accept one another in Christ.
One Word: Accept one another in Christ.