“Brothers, do not slander one
another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the
law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting
in judgment on it. There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to
save and destroy. But you –who are you to judge your neighbor?”
Most of us are familiar with the
verse Matthew 7:1 that says, “Do not judge or you too will be judged,” but how
often do we truly stop and recognize that we judge almost every person we come
in contact with? The clothes they wear, the car they drive, how they walk, how
they talk, whether or not they have tattoos or body piercings –all of these
things create an expectation in our minds as to who they are. We purposefully
avoid them as we go about our day, even go so far as to voice our conclusions
about their character to others, though we do not truly know them. This type of
behavior does not pleasing God. 1 Timothy 2:4 tells us that God, “…wants all
men to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth.” We cannot judge others
because only God knows our hearts. Our job is to simply show them the love of
Christ.
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