Text: “As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions” (Romans 14:1).
Context, Context, Context: Paul was the sherherding leader. Paul knew the Lord more intimately than those he led. Why? Because how can you be qualified to lead and teach if you’re a neophyte? Pride precedes the fall, that is bromidic. Thus, it is essential for us to listen to wisdom, to inculcate it in our ministries.
You need some scars. You need some experience. You need God’s wisdom. And Paul, sinner though he was, was God’s man. And he, too, had to learn patience. And if there’s a hard lesson to learn when you’re trying to lead, that’s it: patience. Be patient with others, because they might not be as biblically mature.
Encouragement: Ever battle the temptation to just say, “Oh my goodness! How can you not understand this? This is so basic! I certainly have. But God is patient with us, dear ones, and we are to emulate that patience by being patient with others. It’s easy to win an argument but lose the person. Let us aim not to do that. Let us recognize that it’s people we are about, not just about appearing to win a temporal argument.
MIND & MATTERS 
We all have those moments when something hits over our head. But that’s where we learn! If we seek wisdom and knowledge from those farther along the road than we are, we gain what they have to offer. How much more will we gain when we go to the Author of the universe to find that wisdom and knowledge! Those more mature in their walk with Jesus have a responsibility to come alongside those behind them and share what they have. I am thankful you take that responsibility seriously, dear friend. So many of us benefit from your stores of information and your willingness to share it because of your shepherd’s heart and your love for the people God has put in your path.
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Moses lived to be 120 years old, the first 40 learning the culture of Egypt (the most advanced culture of the day), the second 40 learning to be a shepherd, the last 40 shepherding the Israelites. He pled many times for the Lord to spare His children; but, I don’t read where he once pled for his own life when the Lord told him where he would die.
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Pretty poignant, isn’t it, brother?
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