Have a Good Weak ... Seriously

S - Romans 14:1-4 (NIV): "Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

O - According to Scripture, the weak one (ἀσθενέω: 1. to be weak, feeble, to be without strength, powerless; 2. to be weak in means, needy, poor; 3. to be feeble, sick) is the one who abstains.  According to religion the one who abstains is the strong and "holy" one.  The Kingdom is about acceptance and religion is about performance of the current list.  The Kingdom is about no comparisons while religion is all about them. Religion is all about judging and the Kingdom is all about standing. 

A - Like conviction and condemnation, religion and real Kingdom activity share/use the same facts.  The point is not "weak or strong" for we all are weak and he is strong. The kingdom is always life giving while religion can never give life.  I want/need to engage the strength of the King and his kingdom by believing, loving, accepting and standing. 

P - Lord who is strength and strength for us,

I praise you for calling us to accept each other because that is exactly how you treat each of us.  Help get out and keep out of my eye the beam of which you warn us.  Enable me to refuse judgment and engage your instruction unto the life that is really life.  I love you back,
Steve