save the starfish
the question is: are we to judge others or not
Jesus says judge not lest ye be judged and paul said judge everything and hold to the good and don't you know we will judge angels and then james said who are you to judge your neighbor and moses said long ago to judge your neighbor fairly
there is a judgement rendered to the unbeliever and the failing believer when the righteous believer comes among them, a guilt that is evoked, and there is some loving response, some amelioration we could provide to them in the moment if we recognize it...but i lack the subtlety or the compassion or the desire and i pray it can be learned from God's example
then there is the worldly view of the church lady, comdemning everything in sight, and rightly so, but wrongly too, it seems...so paul says to us we judge ourselves against ourselves and then we look pretty good but that is the wrong measure and provides us with the benchmark we must hit to judge properly our own behavior
Jesus did say we are to remove the sliver from our brother's eye, and we do it because we love him, right, but that we have a plank in our own and it's not the plank we address here or how to remove it but the fact of once having removed it we are to reach out to those around us and provide them with assistance
if only i loved
how can i say i love God if i insist my brother recognize his sliver before my plank comes out
Jesus says judge not lest ye be judged and paul said judge everything and hold to the good and don't you know we will judge angels and then james said who are you to judge your neighbor and moses said long ago to judge your neighbor fairly
there is a judgement rendered to the unbeliever and the failing believer when the righteous believer comes among them, a guilt that is evoked, and there is some loving response, some amelioration we could provide to them in the moment if we recognize it...but i lack the subtlety or the compassion or the desire and i pray it can be learned from God's example
then there is the worldly view of the church lady, comdemning everything in sight, and rightly so, but wrongly too, it seems...so paul says to us we judge ourselves against ourselves and then we look pretty good but that is the wrong measure and provides us with the benchmark we must hit to judge properly our own behavior
Jesus did say we are to remove the sliver from our brother's eye, and we do it because we love him, right, but that we have a plank in our own and it's not the plank we address here or how to remove it but the fact of once having removed it we are to reach out to those around us and provide them with assistance
if only i loved
how can i say i love God if i insist my brother recognize his sliver before my plank comes out
posted by Ben | 6:20 AM
1 Comments:
I agree totally, it is hard not to judge others when we know they are doing wrong. I have had to learn about looking at oneself the hard way. I asked God to open my eyes to the world and the first thing he had me look at was myself and it was quit a blow to my pride. I have learned that I need to deal with my own sin considering that I may be judgeing someone else who is doing the same sin as me and i have no right to do it. I often have to remind myself especially not to judge those who are not saved. We all make mistakes and they do to they just don't know any better sometimes. I also realize that if I'm ever going to reach a non-believer that I come as a truthful person. The first things that turn non-believers off is people who are hypocrites. I had better make sure I have delt with myself before I become a hypocrite and turn others away because of it.
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