Do you get angry when people can’t or won’t heed your way of life? Do you clamor up when people live differently than you do in faith? Why?

Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? (Acts 15:10)

Before your decision to put faith in Jesus Christ, I’m thinking your lifestyle and/or thinking was pretty asinine.

Moreover, I am thinking that our reason for rebelling from our parents and even putting off the decision to follow Jesus for as long as we have was because our asinine lifestyle and thinking. Maybe you won’t go as far as calling it “asinine.”

But I’m pretty sure somebody would. That is always the case. Stop putting yoke on people that is unnecessary nor attainable. We, as human beings, constantly and consistently push people to live the way we can only strive to live in our wildest dreams.

What I’m saying is that our unrealistic expectations reflected on other people will go unfulfilled so long as we have them because we can’t even uphold them.

Here is why we stop judging people and start welcoming those whose lifestyles we disagree with: “But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.” (Acts 15:11). Peter says essentially says that we were saved by grace, that is, because we couldn’t save ourselves from ourselves; so why would we unfairly expect somebody else to save themselves?

Hopefully it is not because of they have us as coaches. Failures hardly make good coaches.

When we catch ourselves from yoking others, we become good role models to people striving to find Jesus. Let’s work towards that.