Yet another day of internet failure and the only thought that’s running through my head is that I could’ve stayed at home, gone online and gotten some work done or I could’ve slept an hour more or so and come in a little later.
The other thing that was going through my head on my commute to the office this morning was how we all have sinned. And this has no exceptions! Even the best and the holiest person you may know has definitely sinned sometime or the other.
I remember one time, a friend asked me to pray for him because he was struggling with sin in his life. Then he looked at me as if to say - why are you not judging me for what I just said? At that time, I just smiled and assured him I would pray and we went on to discuss other things.
But now when I think of it, I wonder what gives us the right to judge people when we ourselves are in the same boat. Is it not said in the Bible that all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God? That right there is such an equalizer. Even though we categorize ourselves on the basis of gender, caste, creed, race, religion, culture, habits, etc. We have something that makes us equal in the eyes of God. We are all sinners.
What right do we have to judge people then? We all are guilty of this behavior. Some of us even more than the others. Some of us don’t even give people a chance to prove themselves before we judge them based on something really frivolous or something they may have done in the past. We are even willing to write people off because they do not fit the idea of how we think they should be. We put people in boxes that fit our convenience. It is so sad!
In Matthew 7: 1-5, Jesus says - 1"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
The other thing that was going through my head on my commute to the office this morning was how we all have sinned. And this has no exceptions! Even the best and the holiest person you may know has definitely sinned sometime or the other.
I remember one time, a friend asked me to pray for him because he was struggling with sin in his life. Then he looked at me as if to say - why are you not judging me for what I just said? At that time, I just smiled and assured him I would pray and we went on to discuss other things.
But now when I think of it, I wonder what gives us the right to judge people when we ourselves are in the same boat. Is it not said in the Bible that all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God? That right there is such an equalizer. Even though we categorize ourselves on the basis of gender, caste, creed, race, religion, culture, habits, etc. We have something that makes us equal in the eyes of God. We are all sinners.
What right do we have to judge people then? We all are guilty of this behavior. Some of us even more than the others. Some of us don’t even give people a chance to prove themselves before we judge them based on something really frivolous or something they may have done in the past. We are even willing to write people off because they do not fit the idea of how we think they should be. We put people in boxes that fit our convenience. It is so sad!
In Matthew 7: 1-5, Jesus says - 1"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
The consequences of judging people are very clear!
