Matthew 7:1 Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. For you will be treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.
It’s so easy to judge isn’t it, and I suspect we all do it sometimes! If we’ve been raised in a judgemental home then it’s hard to shake that attitude off and we hear people all the time judging others, for what they are doing, or not doing. Maybe it’s the government, or a family member, or in church, or someone in the news and we’re tempted to judge them, often without even knowing them! But Jesus said “Don’t judge others.”
The thing is we don’t know what peoples’ lives have gone through and maybe we’d be the same if we’d been through what they have, or be even worse! God is still working His grace into their lives and ours.Their story and ours isn’t finished yet.🙂
But Jesus warned us that if we are judgemental then we’ll receive the same ourselves! If we treat other people like that then they in turn will treat us like it! Ouch! None of us want that. Jesus went on to say in Matthew 7:12 Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. We forget it sometimes when the words pop out our mouths and whenever we judge someone, we need to remember it will boomerang back at us!
We’ve all met people who speak kindly all the time, and wish we were the same, but depending on our nature some of us can struggle with it more than others! So I think it’s one of those many things where we have to go to the Lord and ask for help to get rid of the judgemental spirit, and ask for the Holy Spirit to take over that area of our lives more and more; to see others through the eyes of love and let go of any pointing fingers and to ask the Lord to forgive us when we do.
We none of us have got it right all the time, and as we’ve received God’s mercy, let’s show some mercy and love to others too. I know I need help to pause before I say something and think how I can love them instead. How about you?😊
Have a blessed weekend.x
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