“If you want to continue to be mired in your own misery spend more time judging others than you do yourself.” ~Jay Meyer
Many years ago when my butt was laying flat on the ground and I had lost just about everything because of my own stupid actions I can remember thinking, “I will try my best to never judge another human being again because I am the worst of sinners.” I’d like to say I’ve not judged since that point in my life but that would be a lie. I will say I try my best not to and when I catch myself doing it I seek God’s forgiveness.
Judging others is a great way to make ourselves look better and at the root of having to bring others down in order to bring ourselves up is, you guessed it, the devil’s best friend-fear. If the devil can get us to waste time on judging others it prevents us from working on ourselves and reaching our maximum potential. A paradox of a personality that often drives me crazy is the “judgmental Christian.” Think of how foolish we look when we profess to be Christian yet spend most of our days judging others. Sin is sin and until I have no sin I have no right to judge others.
I have a new mantra in life, “I’m running out of time.” And because I know my days are numbered I will not allow the devil to pull me into worrying about who is going to hell, heaven, or purgatory, or who is sinning more than than I am. I have enough work on my hands just trying to do the next right thing, and since I know I’m running out of time I do not want to waste a minute talking about or worrying about something I have absolutely no clue about or control over.
God is the ultimate judge and we need to let him do the judging, while we simply need to be doing the witnessing.
My goal is for my “court appearance” on judgement day to be short and sweet with a glorious ending. Man I’ve still got a lot of work to do.
(We are about 25% of the way through this Lenten journey. Who is winning, God or the devil?)
P.E.A.C.E.
Matthew 7:1-2, “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.”
Romans 2:1, “You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.”
