Romans 15:1,3-We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves….3 For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

Will all of us experiencing a leader or a person in authority in some way, we have either walked away knowing that person is out for themselves in abusing people or is striving to build others up.

But all of us have experienced being weak in some area in comparison to another person who maybe stronger. Now knowing our weaknesses, no one would appreciate a person being impatient and discouraging to our failures. Our exception to their impatience says without words "that you are supposed to build me up, not beat me down!"

To not consider this to be an obligation to build people weak in areas you’re not, is to forget Christ always bearing us up in our weaknesses, which are revealed all throughout the day (at the very least to Jesus)! So to think we don’t have the time or we are just too busy to deal with people patiently who are burdensome, due to their failings of weakness, is to forget Who Christ is and how He is bearing us up. This causes us not to walk as He walked, patient and longsuffering towards us, that we would know the Father’s love through His life, death, and resurrection!

In His Love, Ld