13 I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
- Romans 15
As believers in Christ, we all have one thing in common, Yeshua our LORD. But it doesn't mean we are all the same. Most of us are different from each other, and our differences can keep us apart, that is why Paul prays that in every congregation, GOD's grace will be with every follower of Christ, to be patient with each other's differences, to be encouraged to live in harmony with each other because only GOD can truly unite HIS people. GOD alone could ever make many people agree with each other in giving praise to HIM. For without love, without the love of GOD in our hearts, people who belong to GOD could not even live in harmony or agreement with each other, we need HIS love to enable us to love even the unlovable.
Acceptance is the key to living in peace and unity with others. Even members in a family, are easy to be at war against each other, when they do not accept the differences they may have with the other members of a family. How do we accept the characteristics of others we don't even like? We can learn to accept only by GOD's love. Only GOD's love can enable us to accept the things we don't even like. So we make it a point to fill ourselves with GOD everyday, because when we do, we are made secure by HIS joy, hope and peace overflowing in our hearts. No matter what happens, we dont' have to be moved because we belong to the GOD whom we trust with all our lives.
