How to Judge.
Fill your thoughts on how to judge.
We’ve been trained not to judge.
Let’s look at the scriptures here.
1 Do not judge and criticize and condemn others,
so that you may not be judged and criticized
and condemned yourself.
2. For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others,
you will be judged and criticized and condemned,
and in accordance with the measure, the measure you use
to deal out to others will be dealt back again to you.
– Matthew 7:1-2 (AMPC)
So, we’ve taken this as don’t judge. Well, we’re going to learn how to judge. And again, we have been judged already. God in Christ has reconciled the world. He’s judged us already. innocent, not guilty.
So, it’s important that we look at people that same way. That’s Matthew 7 1-2 in the Amplified Classic.
Here is John 7 in in three different versions, too. And in John 7 says “Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.” You go, “What’s that mean?” Stop judging based upon the superficial.
First, you must embrace the standards of mercy and truth. The mirror translation has this really good here: “Do not cloud righteous judgment with your biased opinions and traditions.”
What we’ve done is that we want to judge. We want to judge the way Jesus has judged us. And that’s in a righteous judgment and see all mankind the same way he sees us. We want to see the same way that God sees all mankind.
And so this is something we’ve talked about in the past -“For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free, has made us free from the law of condemnation and judgment.”
So we have been set free. We’re not being pulled down. We’re lifting up. And we want to see people – we see everyone. We see ourselves as being judged righteous and holy with mercy the way God sees us – and we see everybody else that way. And we can love people the way He has loved us.
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