Tag: walking in love

I’ve written about this passage here and here and talked about the specific context of Paul’s words.

But as I read this passage today, I felt God speaking to me and expanding the application for verses 13-15 by changing the word “eat” to “do.”

…decide never to put a stumbling block or pitfall in the way of your brother or sister…

For if your brother or sister is hurt by what you [do], you are no longer walking according to love.

Do not destroy, by what you [do], someone for whom Christ died. (Romans 14:13, 15)

More than once, I have said or done things that have offended people. And in my mind, I thought they were being too sensitive.

But to keep repeating that behavior with them would not have been acting in love. Instead, I would have been destroying someone for whom Christ died.

And so I had to swallow my pride and apologize.

Do we ever think of a brother or sister as being “too sensitive?”

Maybe they are.

But if we continue doing something, knowing that they are hurt by what we do, we are no longer walking according to love.

Rather, we are destroying someone for whom Christ died by what we do.

Let us not do that. Instead,

…let us pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another. (Romans 14:19)