Sunday, November 21, 2010

Who's to Judge?

Judge- to form an opinion, to decide as an arbitrator or umpire.
Christ did not teach using stipulations but guidelines.
Christ’s only asked and desire was for submission and a willing heart.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”
When a friend is in trouble, do not annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
A great deal of our judging of others—is mis-judging or unjust judging, because of the fragmentariness of our knowledge of their personal lives and experiences. It would often grieve us, and make us sorely ashamed of ourselves, if, when we have judged another severely—we should be shown a glimpse of the other's inner life, revealing hidden sorrows and struggles which are the cause of the things in him, which we have blamed so much. We have only a most partial view of another's life—and cannot form absolutely unerring judgments on what we see and know. We see only one side of an act, when there may be another side which altogether changes its quality. On the back side of the tapestry, is but a blurred mass of yarn; while the other side, is exquisite beauty. Life is full of similar two-sided views of people and of acts. We see a man out in the world, and he appears harsh and stern. We see him some day at home where his invalid child lies and suffers, and there he is another man—kindly, thoughtful, with almost motherly gentleness. It would have been most unjust to this man—if we had made up our judgment of him from the outside view alone, without seeing him in his child's sick-room.
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
Christ did not come to judge, he came to reach out to ones. Jn. 3: 17
Jn. 12: 47, Mt. 9: 9-13

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