LEST WE BE JUDGED This, Brothers and Sisters, truly may be one of the good fights that we as Christians face. Truly, it is a hard one and it seems to quietly slip in on us. Jesus judges us for our sins but always gives us help and forgiveness. His love and compassion are immense. This attitude we take toward one another slips in on us so easily. Example: Driving down the road seems to offer up lots of opportunities to judge someone, so much so that road rage has become a brand new crime in this world. Brothers and Sisters, judge not but have compassion and try harder to understand that most of the actions you experience may only be by mistake, not something done intentionally. Yes, and I am sure some actions are but out of the same mistake as judging and not having compassion. Did you know in Jesus time people came in different colors and clothes and hair? Yet Jesus did not judge upon these things. But for most of us this is all it takes to cause us to fall. Whether it be a persons piercing, tattoos, or different clothes and hair, we tend to judge our brothers and sisters without knowing their hearts. Compassion we must have to help us in these times. Just think the next time you slip, do you want people to judge you from this? Think how you might feel, knowing that you are really not like this but rather have made a mistake. There are a lot of reasons why someone might act the way they do. It is not for us to judge but rather to be left to our Lord for He knows all of our hearts and souls. We as Christians cannot afford to judge, lest we be judged. In other words, if you judge someone for a slip of the tongue, or even if it is intentional, you must be judged for your lack of compassion and love for your brother and sister. If you judge a brother or sister, for they do not believe upon Jesus, then you too must be judged, for at one point in your life you may not have believed upon Jesus. This is nothing more than being a hypocrite, or just lacking in love and compassion for your brother or sister. Now that you have read this, judge not me but judge for yourself from what you read now. Even in the Seventh Day Adventist Church there is much confusion on the death penalty. I say, what right have we over our brothers and sisters to take their life? What right have we to end their chance at redemption, salvation or Gods forgiveness for repentance, and conversion? Did Jesus not come to save all, even the one out of ninety nine? Did Jesus not say forgiveness of all sins? He forgives all sins but the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Yet some of us would take upon ourselves the right to end the chance of a murdering brother or sister by judging them unfit to live or receive salvation, that their crime be paid back with their lives, that an eye for an eye must be the way for Christians. That vengeance is ours and not the Lords! Then we are released from mercy, compassion, forgiveness, and love for our brothers and sisters. Do we know for sure in our hearts that we know the brother or sisters heart, or have they been controlled by the wicked one and have we all not fallen prey one way or another to him? At least, if held in detention, they may or may not repent. But what is just as important, we have shown the compassion and love that Jesus hath shown in his first coming. How deep shall our love, our compassion and forgiveness be? Let us all consider this carefully, for it may be a critical error that we cannot change. May we all pray that in our own hearts we reach the right and just conclusion in this matter. “Dear Father in Heaven, I pray that you will give us the wisdom to answer this problem that presents itself to us daily. Let us know what is the right path and which is the wrong. Let us not make such a terrible mistake, let us know in our hearts what is right, and what is wrong in all of our important decisions in our Christian lives and let us do as Jesus would have us do. Amen.” Jerry Grable January 2006 John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: Mathew 7: 1-3 “Judge not, that you be not judged for with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the same measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brothers eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” Exodus 20: 13 The sixth commandment “You shall not murder.” giventowrite.webs/
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