Every day the sun rises. The light and the warmth of the sun give life to everyone and every living thing. Not just the sun. There’s the water, air and earth, they, too, give freely. They simply offer to us all that is good to sustain our well-being. There is no exception, no discrimination, and no judgement.
I am using these four elements as an analogy to how I can understand a scripture verse and apply it on my daily life.
“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbor, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.”
I suppose I have to look at this more on a personal level.
First, I am not perfect therefore who am I to judge? Second, maybe it would help me to put myself in the other person’s shoe. How would I feel if I am the one being judge? And finally, I think judging is a sign of weakness on my part. And to put it in a facetious way, I can only imagine how ugly-looking I am should I have a “log” in my eye.
This verse reminded me about another verse “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” Again, I can imagine that there will be a lot of blind and toothless people running around the world.
Seriously, I need to hold back or bite my tongue no matter how tempting it is to be righteous. This verse does not say anything about goodness or love but I believe this is the heart of it all. It isn`t easy to be as generous as the sun, water, air and earth but who says being a follower of Jesus would be easy?
I love how you relate every post with a passage from the Bible that we can learn from, It’s perfect 🙂
Thank you, Andy. It’s not easy to understand the passages and this my way of understanding it. Good Sunday and go out. Winter is finally here for you!
I like this way of understanding it much better lol years ago i used to attend Victory church and it’s one of the things I appreciated about the pastor, he would explain it the way you did for people like me 🙂
That is very kind of you. I have experience of listening to priest that makes me fall asleep on a pew. Most of them are well educated. I prefer simplicity in teaching. The native church in North Vancouver is a good one.
Simplicity works 🙂
Question: what does this mean XD?
Flip it upright and the X is the eyes and the D is the mouth lol
Too funny I get it now. 😆
ta da!! LOL XD
On the note of passages from the bible, I think you’ll like Linda Vernon’s weekly posts, she adds a little good humor to it 🙂
http://lindavernon.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/gregorys-bible-lesson-life-on-the-ark/
I love it. That is a good read. I’ll go back and check more of the post. 😛
It’s a fun weekly read 😀 lol
I’m reading the scientific measure of stress of shrimp on a treadmill right now. It’s hilarious. I could use this and follow the post. Thanks, again.
You’re so welcome! Linda helps me get through the week 🙂
Now there’s two of us. High Five!
Cheers!!
Lovely post Seeker. Thanks.
Thank you, Bruce.
Nice!!
Thank you.
Morning, Perpetua! 🙂
I love this post and I too believe judging is wrong but at times we all faulter with this one. Hope you have a great week.
Many hugs, Paula xxxxx
Bless your heart, Paula. Thank you for reading. It will be a good week since Canada won on the Sochi 2014 olymics game. Take care of your sweet self. xoxo Perpetua.
Thank you and to you. xxxx
Your Filipino blood is probably strong. Judge? Nope, we see the funny things in life even in the most serious of situations. (laughs)