Being Tolerant With Others Part 1
In the same way, we as human beings struggle with our environment and with the hooks that catch us. Sometimes we master our difficulties; sometimes they are too much for us. Our struggles are all that the world sees and the world naturally misunderstands them.
It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one. Do you have difficulty leaving room for differing opinions of others who can’t measure up? Could it be that we have tasted for so long the ecstasies of conquest that we’ve forgotten the agonies of defeat?
Today, come with me to the divine masterpiece for faith and practice as we discuss today’s message: Being Tolerant With Others.
What Is Tolerance? Tolerance = the willingness or the ability to tolerate (i.e. endure, suffer, etc.) others, their acts or opinions, etc.
One author states: “Tolerance provides “wobble room” for those who can’t seem to measure up. It also allows growing room for the young and restless.
It smiles rather than frowns on struggling instead of rigidly pointing to the rules and rehearsing the failures of the fallen. It stoops and reaches out, offering fresh hope and acceptance”.
On the contrary, an intolerant spirit causes us to be judgemental.We rush to judge without process.
It causes us to move with little or no compassion so that we find it difficult to accommodate others in their struggles.
1. Being Tolerant With Others Is Achievable By Love
Ephesians 4:2 – forbearing one another in love. i.e. to hold oneself up against (fig.) put up with – bear with, endure, suffer
Colossians 3:13-14.
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgive you, so also do ye.
Above all these things put on charity (i.e. love) which is the bond of perfectness.
God knows that some people would be difficult to love and some of us will find it difficult to love. As a matter of fact, the hardest people to love are those who have deliberately wronged us. People who have, for their own motives, which we can’t understand, decided to hurt us.
But our decision to treat others fairly must not be based upon how justly we are treated but from the perspective that God has commanded such.
John 15:12.. – My command is this: love each other as I have loved you.
N.B. Love isn’t a gurgly feeling, but a relationship with others in which we respond to them as God would to us.
Love therefore must spring from obedience.
It is true that one can’t command emotions, but we can command our attitudes that will bring constructive action in our lives and environment.
To be tolerant with others is not achieved by romantic love or reciprocal love but it goes beyond these two forms to the highest level which speaks in terms of redemptive.
In this dimension of love, one thinks in terms of another’s well-being.Here we will sacrificially do what we can to enhance the other person’s life.This form of love turns upside down the notion of selfishness that is prevalent in our society, schools, homes and churches.
This form of love allows us to care even for our enemies and promote their well-being .
It is more than emotional; it is an act of the will where the feeling component fades into the background and the will is in control.
While we have vertical responsibility loving the Lord, we have a horizontal responsibility to love each other.
Teaching by : Apostle Anthony Yarde
It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one. Do you have difficulty leaving room for differing opinions of others who can’t measure up? Could it be that we have tasted for so long the ecstasies of conquest that we’ve forgotten the agonies of defeat?
Today, come with me to the divine masterpiece for faith and practice as we discuss today’s message: Being Tolerant With Others.
What Is Tolerance? Tolerance = the willingness or the ability to tolerate (i.e. endure, suffer, etc.) others, their acts or opinions, etc.
One author states: “Tolerance provides “wobble room” for those who can’t seem to measure up. It also allows growing room for the young and restless.
It smiles rather than frowns on struggling instead of rigidly pointing to the rules and rehearsing the failures of the fallen. It stoops and reaches out, offering fresh hope and acceptance”.
On the contrary, an intolerant spirit causes us to be judgemental.We rush to judge without process.
It causes us to move with little or no compassion so that we find it difficult to accommodate others in their struggles.
1. Being Tolerant With Others Is Achievable By Love
Ephesians 4:2 – forbearing one another in love. i.e. to hold oneself up against (fig.) put up with – bear with, endure, suffer
Colossians 3:13-14.
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgive you, so also do ye.
Above all these things put on charity (i.e. love) which is the bond of perfectness.
God knows that some people would be difficult to love and some of us will find it difficult to love. As a matter of fact, the hardest people to love are those who have deliberately wronged us. People who have, for their own motives, which we can’t understand, decided to hurt us.
But our decision to treat others fairly must not be based upon how justly we are treated but from the perspective that God has commanded such.
John 15:12.. – My command is this: love each other as I have loved you.
N.B. Love isn’t a gurgly feeling, but a relationship with others in which we respond to them as God would to us.
Love therefore must spring from obedience.
It is true that one can’t command emotions, but we can command our attitudes that will bring constructive action in our lives and environment.
To be tolerant with others is not achieved by romantic love or reciprocal love but it goes beyond these two forms to the highest level which speaks in terms of redemptive.
In this dimension of love, one thinks in terms of another’s well-being.Here we will sacrificially do what we can to enhance the other person’s life.This form of love turns upside down the notion of selfishness that is prevalent in our society, schools, homes and churches.
This form of love allows us to care even for our enemies and promote their well-being .
It is more than emotional; it is an act of the will where the feeling component fades into the background and the will is in control.
While we have vertical responsibility loving the Lord, we have a horizontal responsibility to love each other.
Teaching by : Apostle Anthony Yarde
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