Day 3 - Tuesday - Connect the Testaments: A 365-Daily Devotional with Bible Reading and Plan - Logos
December 28: Unity Jeremiah 52:1–34; Romans 14:13–15:7 ; Proverbs 29:1–27 Paul calls us to refrain from judging others (Rom 14:3). That’s easy enough to do when the people in our communities are the people we’d want to have over for dinner. What happens when those in our community don’t value (or disvalue) the things we love (or disvalue)? “Now may the God of patient endurance and of encouragement grant you to be in agreement with one another, by Christ Jesus, so that with one mind you may glorify with one mouth the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore accept one another, just as Christ also has accepted you, to the glory of God” (Rom 15:5–7). Paul asks the Roman believers to stretch themselves in this portion of his letter. For the Roman believers, the judgment might have centered on the issue of eating the meat of unclean animals or the observance of Jewish holidays. Paul asks them to withhold judgment of one another because only God has that right (Rom 14:10...