Shalom,
Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers covers something that has bothered me about the attitude of many people I know!
The
Undeviating Test
For with
what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it
shall be measured to you again. — Matthew 7:2
This
statement is not a haphazard guess, it is an eternal law of God. Whatever
judgment you give, it is measured to you again. There is a difference between
retaliation and retribution. Jesus says that the basis of life is retribution —
“with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” If you have
been shrewd in finding out the defects in others, remember that will be exactly
the measure given to you. Life serves back in the coin you pay. This law works
from God’s throne downwards (cf. Psalm 18:25-26).
Romans 2
applies it in a still more definite way, and says that the one who criticises
another is guilty of the very same thing. God looks not only at the act, He
looks at the possibility. We do not believe the statements of the Bible to
begin with. For instance, do we believe this statement, that the things we
criticise in others we are guilty of ourselves? The reason we see hypocrisy and
fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The
great characteristic of a saint is humility — “Yes, all those things and other
evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I
have no right to judge.”
Jesus says —
“Judge not, that ye be not judged”; if you do judge, it will be measured to you
exactly as you have judged. Who of us would dare to stand before God and say —
“My God, judge me as I have judged my fellow men?” We have judged our fellow
men as sinners; if God should judge us like that we would be in hell. God
judges us through the marvellous Atonement of Jesus Christ.
AMEN! Refuse to put judgment on anyone! THAT is GOD'S job and HE does not need OUR help for this situation! Here is Hillsong with "From The Inside Out":
Shalom in Him!