“You may have some good thoughts, and I concede the right for you to have your own thoughts, but if I’m being honest, I want you to know that your thoughts are not as good as my thoughts, and if you were truly wise and insightful, you would come to think about things the way I do.”
Have you ever thought something like the above? We see things and hear things the way that we see and hear them. We think things the only way we know how—the way we think. Our perspective is certainly one-sided.
Read Romans 14. Be careful that you do not make laws where God does not make laws. Where the law of God has been given, there must be compliance and there is no room for the thoughts of man to deviate therefrom (Jer. 10:23; Rev. 22:18-19; 1 Cor. 4:6). But, in matters of opinion, ask yourself, “Am I ‘walking in love’? Am I trying to ‘pursue peace and edify another’? Am I unnecessarily causing ‘offense’?” (Rom. 14:15, 19, 20). In matters of opinion, it’s ok if others don’t think exactly like me!