Stop Judging you Jerk

 

Oh, I’m not talking to you guys, unless you feel guilty, I was talking about me.

I’m driving down the street, look over, see someone do something I see as really stupid and my mind works overtime coming up with ways to describe that driver.

I’m swimming at the pool and a heavyset person easily passes me and I think in my mind, how can someone that big swim that fast? My judgment is that heavy people can’t swim fast and that’s wrong.

A friend and I were talking about judgment at the gym this morning. We all do it and I’m not rationalizing or saying it’s okay. It is not okay. Oh, I know its human nature but so are a lot of other things and that does not give me license to keep doing them.

I judge you because you go to church, you judge me because I don’t.

You think I must believe this or that because I’m a Republican. I see someone in a more liberal party and think they are off just a bit, that’s judgment.

We hide behind right and wrong when none of us really holds the proper measuring stick. By me writing that many will judge that I’m saying there is no right or wrong, and now you are wrong because that is not what I’m saying but thanks for judging me.

My favorite is the line we use to judge when we say “I’m not judging you but……” You are so just be honest about it or don’t do it.

There are those who use judgment but call it advice or helping you, no, it’s judgment in a prettier package. Problem is it still smells like crap.

Perhaps if we all assume we know nothing and that God did not make us smarter, better or more amazing than the person or party on the other side, we’d stop.

I know, you think I’m stupid for just suggesting it.

See, you just did it again.

3 Comments

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  tim campbell July 29, 2011 at 1:08 pm

  Great read and so true!!
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  Donna July 29, 2011 at 3:34 pm

  I don’t think you’re stupid for suggesting it, I think you’re stupid for being a Republican! Haha, just kidding!!! We are all guilty of some form of judging especially of those who don’t believe what we believe. I think we to easily get judging and admonishing confused. God will judge those of the world and Christians admonish, or help to restore, other Christians who are falling away. Admonishing with gentleness and kindness.
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  Lori Weller July 29, 2011 at 10:37 pm

  Funny, you wrote this today, and this appeared on my wall today…..not that I don’t judge sometimes, either, just found this rather timely!
  “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Matthew 7:1-2