RIGHTEOUS STRENGTH

READING: ROMANS 15:1-6

Verse 1: “We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves.”

Sometimes it is difficult for those who are strong to have much sympathy or understanding for those who are not. This is reflected buy a number of different responses. A strong person may be puzzled  and unable to accept that a weaker person doesn’t just stand up and do better. Other strong people are prone to despise weakness and become angry with those who seem weak. Still others who are strong simply step in and do for the weak whatever they think the weak need to have done. However, what the strong should do toward the weak, is to obey Romans 15:1. The strong should endure and help strengthen the weaknesses of those who lack their strength. The strong should relate to the needs of the weak instead of their own needs. In His strength, our Lord Jesus sacrificed himself to redeem all of our human weakness. May His example serve as the ultimate model for all who are strong. That’s a thought – about God’s Word.

RESPONSE

1. What qualities do the strong need in order to obey the verse above?

2. This verse is written to address the behavior of the strong.
What does it communicate to the weak?