Wednesday, October 9, 2013 "Judging Others"

7 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “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? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. Matthew 7:1-5

It is never okay to judge another.  No justification will change the scripture.  Anything we do to another may be done to us.  We reap what we sow and sometimes we reap what others have sown, better known as generational seeds.  Let us love one another and let us not judge.  No one is perfect and it is not of God to judge another.  No one knows what God has put someone through, the trials he/she is under.  No one knows the time someone has been waiting for an answered prayer. I remember when my husband and I bought our home together, so many people judged us. They still do. They think we "have money" because we built a sizable home. What people should instead be doing is praising the Lord for building a home big enough to plant a local neighborhood church in it. For that was His plan for this house all along, never ours. It is not a trophy house, it is our home and now our church home too. And it is our haven.  We got so upset when others were jealous, envious and down right nasty but we looked to the Lord for all blessings come from Him and it was years of working hard, saving hard and being disciplined in our spending that He blessed. Do you have someone in your life that judges? Do you find yourself judging?  Let us instead, love one another and encourage one another. Let us lift each other up in spirit and in His truth. Let's speak life not death and let us glorify Him in all we say and in all we do. Judging is not of Him therefore it should not be of us.