Every person is unique, coming from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Your beliefs are the foundation upon which you manifest your entire reality. When your foundation is built on love, peace, joy and kindness, you will see the world from these lenses. You will expect people to respond to you in like manner.
No two humans are the same; why attempt to make it so? Accept others’ individuality. Embrace and encourage the person, even when you do not agree with some of their beliefs or choices. Then we will create unity in our world.
If a unified language is to be chosen, perhaps silence would be the greatest choice. This would allow more time for inner reflection and create less miscommunication through the use of oral language. Silent heart to heart connections of love are also optimal.
Even within spiritual circles, there is much dissention. Most religions state that it is good to love and be kind to one another. The symbiotic relationship within nature is enough proof that a conscious being designed and created earth and the surrounding universe. Honoring the Creator of the universe is soothing to the soul. If there is to be a unified religion, love of the Creator, others and self is a great foundation.
When it comes to our soul, there is no hierarchy; we all start life on common grounds. Everyone has an equal opportunity to support the love-based choices of each other. Isn’t that a goal worth striving for? Consider what judgments you will release that has created separation from your Creator and those he created. How can you better embrace diversity?
Judging others has been a problem since the beginning of humanity. In the following, the apostle Paul is writing to the young church in Rome. This church was a mixture of Jewish and non-Jewish believers in Christ. There was a division because the tradition of the Jews forbids them to eat specific foods. They were insisting that the non-Jewish believers follow the same rules. Paul’s message in Romans 14:1-23 is to not cause division on matters that do not affect one’s soul. What he wrote 2,000 years ago is still relevant today.
“1Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
10 You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11 It is written: ’As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God (Isaiah 45:23).’”
12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God. 13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. 15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. 16 Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. 17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, 18 because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.
19 Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21 It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall. 22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.”
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