What do vegetables have to do with our faith? More than we might think. Romans 14 opens with a disagreement over food and sacred days, but the real issue runs much deeper. It is about what happens when sincere Christians see things differently, and how we respond in those moments reveals something important about the condition of our hearts. This passage challenges us to examine two instincts that tend to surface when we encounter a fellow believer who does not share our convictions: the urge to despise them for being too restrictive, or the urge to judge them for being too free. Paul says no to both, and his reasoning stops us in our tracks. God has welcomed them. If the God of the universe has received another believer into his family, we have to ask ourselves what authority we think we hold to treat them as though they do not belong. The message is not that truth is unimportant or that everything is simply a matter of opinion. It is that on those matters where Scripture allows room for Christians to reach different conclusions, we are not one another's Lord. Jesus already holds that position, and we can trust him to do the job well.