Like calling someone a glutton because he is fat and then he gets upset and starts to insist that he isn't a glutton and then calls you judgemental for making the assumption. If he wasn't a glutton, he would've not gotten so upset. There's a difference between laughing at someone and getting seriously offended when someone calls you out. I am talking about the offended people.
Because you see an overweight person, you call them a glutton. You don’t see anything else.
You don’t know if last year they were 390 pounds, this year they are 290, and next year they will be 190.
You don't know if illness or injury that they suffered, or maybe are suffering, that is contributing to their weight.
You don’t know if they just had a baby.
You don’t know anything beyond what you see, and what you don’t know (paired with your own shortcomings) is why one should be very careful using the name of God to execute a judgment.
My close girlfriend used to be a professional bodybuilder. She won national awards and was in major, mainstream magazines. She went skiing on the Bunny Slope, took a small jump, landed in a position she had a 1 in a million chance of landing in, broke her back. She was airlifted out, in the hospital for 3 months, told she’d never walk again or have useful control of the right side of her body. She was bound to a wheelchair for 2 years and now by a miracle she can walk, sometimes unassisted, sometimes with a walker, though she’s in persistent agony from muscle atrophy on her right side. Two and half years of being wheelchair and bed-bound, paired with her extremely limited mobility and pain has robbed her of her award-winning physique, but she doesn’t care because she was rewarded with the gift of walking when she was told she couldn’t.
What a heartbreak it would be to confront this woman who is a walking, talking, living proof of God’s grace and call her a glutton because all you see is she is 5 foot 4 and weighs 250 pounds and needs a walker. It would be looking God’s evidence of miracles in the eyes and calling it a sin.
We all are called to make choices, some of what we are called to do is different from others, but I would rather explain why I didn’t confront a sin because my faith in God is that God will reach them how they can be found, than why I judged someone falsely of sin and invoked the name of God in the process.
ETA: she is outspoken about how this injury brought her to better understand herself and God and broke her of two sins she didn’t realized how badly they’d consumed her... Ego and vanity. Her injury taught her what true strength was vs superficial strength on a stage, and true taking care of your body vs extreme tricks to get you through a contest. What you would see as an indulgence of sin, she actually had as her path away from it, to a healthier life and closer relationship with God.
