Therefore, any one of you who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things. Romans 2:1
"Don't grumble about each other, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. For look--the Judge is standing at the door!" James 5:9
It's so easy to see the speck in another's eye, but to see the huge beam in one's own eye is so very difficult!
("Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?") Matthew 7:3
I wonder at how we can even see anything in someone else's eye when we have such a beam! How can we judge another?
When we do judge another....do we not understand that we are BEING judged in like manner....by the one and ONLY TRUE Judge, the One Who will judge the world?
God's Word says that as you 'mete' out it will BE 'meted' out back to you. I once heard a story of a man who sold his merchandise at a market. He would also purchase his bread at that same market.
He discovered that his bread weighed less than it was supposed to weigh, so he confronted the manager about this indiscrepancy......the manager replied, "I weigh my bread by the same measurement you weigh your merchandise."
He was meting out the measurement in the same way it was meted out to him......justice.
God will do this as well. He will judge us according to how we judge others....it would seem expediant that we use proper retsraint in judging others.....do unto others as you would have them do unto you.....better yet- do unto others as you would want God to do unto you! Because He will.
(Matthew 7:12)
"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets."
Where do I come up with my ideas for what I write? From the understanding that we are ALL capable of being like Hitler, himself........BUT for the grace of God, and the forgiveness through Jesus, the Messiah......when I look into my heart and see the possibilities of what sin is like, when it rules the heart, mind, and soul of a person.....I think as Isaiah did; "I am a man (woman) of unclean lips......or rather heart-without the touch of cleansing fire from the Holy Spirit...we are all people most lost!
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