Wednesday, January 30, 2013

How you judge others will determine how you are judged


Mat 5:2  And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying…

Mat 7:1  Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Mat 7:2  For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

People talk about 'karma'  --

'Karma in Indian religions is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect '


And you'll often hear something called 'instant karma', meaning instantly having a consequence resulting from an action. Generally it's spoken of in this way- you do something to hurt someone or something and then you are punished in return. Or the opposite- you do something good and something good happens to you in return.

This 'Indian' concept is spoken of readily but the Bible, God's Word has this same concept.

'With what measure you mete, it will be measured to you again.'   If you do good, you'll be rewarded for that, if you do bad, you will be punished for that. 

This is TRUTH.

We can't expect instant rewards, or instant punishment all the time either, it just doesn't work that way.

You can be 'good' here and now and be punished horrifically having done nothing to deserve the punishment. Also, you can be evil and heap great rewards for it here and now. 

If you are being taught by JESUS you are being told that your actions have consequences. You are being told NOT to judge others because you WILL be judged in the same way. If you are compassionless you cannot expect compassion. If you judge ruthlessly, then you will be judged ruthlessly.

We are told NOT to judge.

JUDGE NOT.

If we withhold judgment of others we do NOT risk being judged wrongly ourselves.

How easy is it not to judge though?  Obviously it's not something that isn't an issue, if it weren't Jesus wouldn't have had to teach us about it, would He?

Judge not.

Try to pay attention to how much you judge, do it for a day, a week, a month. Try to catch yourself judging others.

Judging-  (verb) dictionary definition-

'to pass legal judgment on; pass sentence on (a person)'
'to form a judgment or opinion of; decide upon critically'
'to infer, think, or hold as an opinion; conclude about or assess'


Judge not.

And from the Webster's Bible dictionary-

'To censure rashly; to pass severe sentence.'

Judge not.

And our being told to Judge not is spoken of in connection with what measure we mete, we will be measured with.

This truly does go hand in hand with LOVE.

We are to LOVE our neighbors. We are to treat others as we want to be treated - no matter how they treat us- this is LOVE.

This also goes hand in hand with forgive others as you want our Heavenly Father to forgive you.

We desire forgiveness, we desire understanding, we desire leniency, we NEVER want to be treated harshly, never. 

We MUST treat others as we want to be treated and SATAN will try EVERYTHING to keep this from happening.

Satan wants us to judge others and judge them harshly. Satan wants us to hold others to higher standards than we hold ourselves. Satan wants us to be without compassion.  Satan wants us  to take on an air of superiority just because we haven't had the misfortune of getting caught up in things others have.  Satan will stop at NOTHING to get us to judge others and mete out very harsh punishment.  Satan will blind us in any way he can blind us and keep us self-righteous and arrogant, and even blind to that in ourselves.  And if we aren't blind to that in ourselves then he'll get us to like our own arrogance and self-righteousness, he'll get us to be proud of ourselves. He'll convince us that EVIL is good, when in truth it can only always be EVIL!

We need to pray for compassion, pray for the love we need to have towards ALL others- not just a select few we choose to love.

May God help us to JUDGE NOT!
By HIS Grace and HIS Righteousness may we learn to JUDGE NOT.

In HIS LOVE!

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