Early last year, i found myself in the business of falling in love. It made me think… Think about my true and first love. My God and savior. The more i felt in love, the more i realized how much more i should love Him. How much more important he was.
Mat 22:37
Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
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God, our true love, bless!
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Mathew 7:1-5
Mat 7:1 Judge not, that you may not be judged.
Mat 7:2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you shall be judged; and with whatever measure you measure out, it shall be measured to you again.
Mat 7:3 And why do you look on the splinter that is in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the beam that is in your own eye?
Mat 7:4 Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull the splinter out of your eye; and, behold, a beam is in your own eye?
Mat 7:5 Hypocrite! First cast the beam out of your own eye, and then you shall see clearly to cast the splinter out of your brother’s eye.
Oh how true. I just wish i had understood it earlier. And i did, but i never grasped it.
I’ve always known, that i have been somewhat of an judger, and at times professionally good at making a first impression on someone. Not that my guesses are good ones. And I’ve known that I’ve been wrong in doing so. Some of it i guess could be blamed on “human nature” as everyone does that to some degree, but it’s not a good excuse, it’s a terrible one.
Part of what I’ve done wrong, is thinking that I know better, thinking that my way is the ABC That I’ve got it all figured out. That it’s not really that hard. Thinking that they don’t care, that they don’t want, and that they don’t think. That they should know.
But how often I failed to see the big picture…
However, I do think that there are times that one should speak up, and talk to people about something that they are doing wrong. But theres a difference between that, and judging them. I think part of my problem is that i don’t always know, or act, the difference.
I like the way Jesus handled things with the woman that was taken in adultery; “Neither do I give judgment. Go, and sin no more.”
Lately I’ve begun to realize, and understand though, just maybe even grasp some of it. I’m still far from perfect, but I’m working on it, and I’m happy i am.
I’ve started to use every judging though against myself, by flipping it around and asking if i have a beam in my own eye that fit this, or a similar situation. And often, i realize that i do.
I guess what I’m trying to say is; judge, and it will come back around and bite you.
I’m just glad that:
Rom 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
, and as long as we let him work; One simply can’t fail. Oh how hopeless life would have been without him.
God Bless&Happy Sabbath.
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