Judge Not That You Be Not Judged. Part [3] 03/21/2024 (Evening thought)

Romans 2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judges: for wherein you judge another, you condemn thyself; for you that judge do the same things.

Bosses sometimes judge the employees who called out sick the day after the Super Bowl, or the day after New Year’s. Even though it may look or sound fishy, the gut feeling is not based on facts and as such, must also be taken with a grain of salt. The employees could really have been sick. Then there are little, budding judges in the form of children, who sometimes wrongfully judge parents.

In many cases, animosities and bad feelings settle in the home, based on false assumptions or narratives. Parents are imperfect beings, and sometimes they’ll do things with the best of intentions, which are later impugned by the kids. Therefore, we seem to be immersed in a judgmental world where people are drawing the wrong or right conclusions every day, and because of this, it is now necessary to address the issue of judging.

The Gospel generally tracks a different course, for in God’s courtroom, the bad actors are set free whenever they confess to wrongdoing and plead for help. But, for viewers down here on earth, to see the sinner go free would cause the ratings of judgmental shows to go down, for mercy is not a part of our natural grain.

Psalms 109:15 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth. 16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!

Judge Not That You Be Not Judged. Part [2] 03/20/2024 (Morning thought)

Matthew 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Husbands and wives are often asked to work late at night, or because of some unforeseen circumstance on the job, might be delayed for several hours, thus, just because he, or she does not come home at the usual time does not suggest that there is definitely something suspicious going on. The spouse in question might come home very late that night several hours after midnight, and because of some emergency, may not have been able to call, or say something.

His, or her cellphones could also have been dead; that doesn’t mean he was doing a night shift somewhere he was not supposed to be. Furthermore, in situations such as these one spouse may be driven to smell the other’s clothes searching for foreign perfume, or one might be driven, by gut feeling to scroll through the list of recent cell-phone calls, trying to identify some ghost of a person from never land.

Now, this is not to say that persons are to entirely dispense with gut feelings, because there are also instances where gut feelings, and premonition did turn out to be right. All we are saying is to get the undisputed facts before drawing your conclusions, because God does not judge anyone on gut feeling, but on facts and motives.

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!