I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Romans 15-16

I never realized before reading through Romans this year that there is really just one theme running through the entire letter.  While Paul touches on other things as he expounds on this idea, he keeps coming back to it.  Paul says again and again, in different ways, we should love others as God loves us.  That means accepting people as they are, not as we wish they would be because God accepted us as we were when we first came to Him.  However, that does not mean that we should not encourage people to change.  Indeed, Paul tells us tat we should help others to do what is right and build them up in the Lord.  Just as Christ accepted us as we were, as we are, and gave us the Holy Spirit to transform us into who God made us to be, so we should accept people as they are and encourage them to accept the Holy Spirit’s transformation of themselves.