When our focus is on God's Kingdom and what He is doing in our lives and through our lives, it enables and allows us to see clearly to be able to help others in their own journey rather than coming across as being know-it-all judgers. Most of what gets accused of being judgmental is true because we can often become guilty of making our focus and intention about improving someone else at the expense of God's Kingdom in our own lives. Judgmental attitudes usually stem from our own desire to justify what we are doing in light of what we perceive others are doing.
I find in my own life that when I am not allowing God to work in me then I do have a tendency to become quite judgmental. In some ways I assume I can avoid or bypass the dealings of God by helping others deal with the issues I perceive they have. That is when we work on the speck in the eye of someone else while trying to avoid the beam in our own eye.
What God has called us to, however, is to allow Him by His Spirit to bring us more in line with His plan and His Kingdom and then put us in positions, places and opportunities in which we can be a blessing to others in the way that we help them find truth. When we are able to see and realize our own lack and allow ourselves to be changed, then it produces in us the compassion necessary to help others along in their journey as well.
By following this pattern and work in our own lives, we begin to fulfill these words of Jesus:
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. (John 7:24).
As we allow God's Spirit to work in and on our lives, we are able to rightfully see and understand to judge righteous judgment; because we will no longer be approaching the issues from our perspective or perception, but will rather be seeing from a Kingdom perspective.
I find in my own life that when I am not allowing God to work in me then I do have a tendency to become quite judgmental. In some ways I assume I can avoid or bypass the dealings of God by helping others deal with the issues I perceive they have. That is when we work on the speck in the eye of someone else while trying to avoid the beam in our own eye.
What God has called us to, however, is to allow Him by His Spirit to bring us more in line with His plan and His Kingdom and then put us in positions, places and opportunities in which we can be a blessing to others in the way that we help them find truth. When we are able to see and realize our own lack and allow ourselves to be changed, then it produces in us the compassion necessary to help others along in their journey as well.
By following this pattern and work in our own lives, we begin to fulfill these words of Jesus:
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. (John 7:24).
As we allow God's Spirit to work in and on our lives, we are able to rightfully see and understand to judge righteous judgment; because we will no longer be approaching the issues from our perspective or perception, but will rather be seeing from a Kingdom perspective.
