To Judge or Not to Judge

A hope-filled week to you,

Woops! I had been feeling pretty good because I didn't see my name in that list of wicked people in Romans 1:29 - 2:4. Their cheating, wanton killing, and all kinds of evil sounds terrible. 

But then Paul has to say it straight out! "Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things." As the Message says, "It takes one to know one."

And Paul goes on with, "You didn't think, did you, that just by pointing your finger at others you would distract God from seeing all your misdoings and from coming down on you hard? ....  God is kind, but he's not soft. In kindness he takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life-change."

Mmm.... That does sound like God's ways. And part of the radical life-change must be a humble attitude toward those struggling in obvious sin.

Thank you Lord for Your forgiveness for us who have played the judge.

Love,

Ouida

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