How
many times have I looked at other people and been critical of their
appearance and/or actions? My, my, my, how perfect I am and qualified to
judge others. I went to the doctor and found out I have Plank Eye
Disease, a common affliction among mankind and one that Dr. Jesus had a
cure for. He said, DON'T JUDGE OTHERS YOU HYPOCRITE. As always, he had
diagnosed the problem correctly and prescribed the correct cure.
The time I spend judging could be better spent loving. A non-believer commented that the non-judgmental attitude was just common sense. Right, common sense because Jesus said it and made it the rule, not the exception.
Please, join me in making it a common practice to replace judgment with love. We have enough stress from our bad actions and appearances are subjective. After all, God forgave us and could care less about our appearance. For God, it's all in the spirit, and none of us make a connection with the person's spirit we are judging. Otherwise, we would just love them immediately because they were created with divine love by God.
A friend of mine who is a retired Minister asked me this question concerning judgment causing me to ponder it for several months before I could write this last paragraph, "We must make judgments of people everyday in order to carry on our lives and businesses. Are we going against God's command? This is the answer I received through pondering and prayer: judging another person for hiring as an employee, to purchase an item from, to vote for in an election, etc is judgment of a person's skills, knowledge, political leanings, etc, whereas Jesus' judgment is of the person as a creation of God who loves them without condition and sees them as worth every effort to save even at the sacrifice of his own son.
So you see, the person may perform bad actions, but God separates those actions from the entity of his Holy Spirit that dwells within. We must throw aside our dislike and disapproval of a person's actions to get to the Holy Spirit of God alive within that person and love them for that very indwelling of God's Holy Spirit. Bad or what we call evil cannot destroy God's Spirit, though the evil may hide the spirit from our judging eyes.
According to the Greek definition, sin means that one has missed the mark. All of us miss the mark on a daily basis, but that doesn't destroy God's spirit within us, it merely hides it from our worldly or physical vision. Love without judgment and you will hit the mark and put a smile on God's face and begin the process of whittling away at the facade hiding God's Holy Spirit within the person. In the end, you will be healed of Plank Eye Disease.
The time I spend judging could be better spent loving. A non-believer commented that the non-judgmental attitude was just common sense. Right, common sense because Jesus said it and made it the rule, not the exception.
Please, join me in making it a common practice to replace judgment with love. We have enough stress from our bad actions and appearances are subjective. After all, God forgave us and could care less about our appearance. For God, it's all in the spirit, and none of us make a connection with the person's spirit we are judging. Otherwise, we would just love them immediately because they were created with divine love by God.
A friend of mine who is a retired Minister asked me this question concerning judgment causing me to ponder it for several months before I could write this last paragraph, "We must make judgments of people everyday in order to carry on our lives and businesses. Are we going against God's command? This is the answer I received through pondering and prayer: judging another person for hiring as an employee, to purchase an item from, to vote for in an election, etc is judgment of a person's skills, knowledge, political leanings, etc, whereas Jesus' judgment is of the person as a creation of God who loves them without condition and sees them as worth every effort to save even at the sacrifice of his own son.
So you see, the person may perform bad actions, but God separates those actions from the entity of his Holy Spirit that dwells within. We must throw aside our dislike and disapproval of a person's actions to get to the Holy Spirit of God alive within that person and love them for that very indwelling of God's Holy Spirit. Bad or what we call evil cannot destroy God's Spirit, though the evil may hide the spirit from our judging eyes.
According to the Greek definition, sin means that one has missed the mark. All of us miss the mark on a daily basis, but that doesn't destroy God's spirit within us, it merely hides it from our worldly or physical vision. Love without judgment and you will hit the mark and put a smile on God's face and begin the process of whittling away at the facade hiding God's Holy Spirit within the person. In the end, you will be healed of Plank Eye Disease.
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