Personal Trainer

I’m not into weight training and body shaping, but I go to the gym everyday simply to walk three miles on the treadmill. As I get acquainted with the gym community, a few fellow members let me know they are also physical trainers. I have to laugh. From their perspective they no doubt view me as someone who needs a trainer. Mature believers often do something similar when they assess a fellow believer as weak in faith and then all of the sudden the mature believer becomes a self-described spiritual trainer. Paul said, “Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. One man’s faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand” (Ro 14:1-4 NIV).