Good Morning Thursday...
Father thank You for this NEW day. Thank You for this day’s BREATH that we BREATHE. Help us, guide us, fill us with Your Light, and lead us to be MORE like Your Son YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST. In Yeshua, Jesus Christ’s Name we pray. Amen! - How Should We Judge? With Humility, Truth, Respect, and LOVE We probably have all heard the eternal words of Yeshua, Christ Our Savior, when it comes to judging others. We might have even heard arguments about what He really meant. Today let’s take a look at some of these verses. As we search Our Father’s Word, let’s try to find the Truth, Respect, and Love He Is Leading Us Towards. Let’s start with Matthew: “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” Matthew 7:1-5 Truth, Respect, and Love. This is what we must show others if we ever expect to find reciprocation, or the same treatment back. In order to do this we must have Humility. The moment we get “puffed up” and are prideful, this becomes a very difficult thing to do. Why? Because then, we begin to judge... and not righteously. We have all seen or been a part of the “can you believe that so and so did this” club. This is wrong. Now many people will tell you “don’t judge,” but this is not what Our Savior is necessarily saying. In fact, we are told to judge righteously in many places in Our Father’s Word. Let’s take a look: “Open your mouth, judge righteously, And plead the cause of the poor and needy.” Proverbs 31:9 “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.” John 7:24 “Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.” I Thessalonians 5:19-22 We see in the above verses we are suppose to judge, but we are supposed to judge Righteously if we are to judge. What our LORD and Savior is telling us in Matthew 7:1-5 is that if we judge, we must make sure and judge righteously, and if we are judging our Brother or Sister, we must use the same standard by which we would want to be judged. In order to accomplish this, we need to be full of Truth, Respect, Humility, and Love. It definitely makes it easier knowing Jesus told us “you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you...” Right? To say this in another way would be: your judgement has to be fair and you should only judge others by a standard that you are willing to be judged by. Don’t we all want to be judged, if we have to be judged, by standards like Humility, Truth, Respect, and Love? Of course we do. If we have a problem with ANYTHING in our lives, we should be very careful about pointing out other’s problems in theirs. Because we haven’t fixed our problem, we may not be equipped with the correct judgement to even point another’s out. I am willing to bet we all have some kind of “plank” in our eye, so let’s worry less about the “specks” in other’s eyes. We don’t see Jesus cracking jokes anywhere in The Bible, but I do believe He is using some humor here. I mean, come on... Have you ever seen anyone walking around with a whole board or plank in their eye? No. Funny mental picture though, right? Our King tells us that once we fix our our “problem” we will be equipped to show our Brother or Sister how to remove their “problem.” Our King is making a point. The point is: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Matthew 22:39 Today as we go out into this world, let’s make a conscious choice to walk in Humility, Truth, Respect, and Love. Can you imagine the wonderful place this world would be if everyone did?
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