Today I want to share again from Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost For His Highest". This is EXCELLENT!
The Uncritical Temper
Judge not, that ye be not judged. — Matthew 7:1
Jesus says regarding judging — Don’t. The average
Christian is the most penetratingly critical individual. Criticism is a part of
the ordinary faculty of man; but in the spiritual domain nothing is
accomplished by criticism. The effect of criticism is a dividing up of the
powers of the one criticised; the Holy Ghost is the only One in the true
position to criticise, He alone is able to show what is wrong without hurting
and wounding. It is impossible to enter into communion with God when you are in
a critical temper; it makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you
with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. Jesus says, as a
disciple cultivate the uncritical temper. It is not done once and for all.
Beware of anything that puts you in the superior person’s place.
There is no getting away from the penetration of Jesus. If I
see the mote in your eye, it means I have a beam in my own. Every wrong thing
that I see in you, God locates in me. Every time I judge, I condemn myself (see
Romans 2:17-20). Stop having a measuring rod for other people. There is always
one fact more in every man’s case about which we know nothing. The first thing
God does is to give us a spiritual spring-cleaning; there is no possibility of
pride left in a man after that. I have never met the man I could despair of
after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
I have been mocked, ridiculed, yelled at and lectured to by those who want to retain what they believe is their right to judge other people! The above and the Scriptures shared make it extremely obvious that we are NOT to judge others. If you desire to give yourself the 'right' to judge others, then there is something very wrong in your understanding of the Word of God and in your fellowship with HIM! WHEN we see a brother or sister in the Lord sin, we are instructed to PRAY for them! THEN, Galatians 6:1 in our Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan for today says THIS:
Brethren, if any person is overtaken in misconduct or sin of any sort, you who are spiritual [who are responsive to and controlled by the Spirit] should set him right and restore and reinstate him, without any sense of superiority and with all gentleness, keeping an attentive eye on yourself, lest you should be tempted also.
There is NO place given here for the attitude that is revealed in the devotional above! Keep yourself in the Love of God by refusing to judge! Your LIFE will be so blessed for it! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Starts and Ends":
Shalom in Him!
