Judging Others

Posted November 30, 2009 by mackswords
Categories: Judging

And why beholdest thou the moat that is in thy brother’s eye, but consider-est not the beam that is in thine own eye? Matt 7:3 (KJV) to make a point about the human impulse to judge others while ignoring our own faults. Tend to your own flaws, Jesus teaches, before you get too upset about others’.

Why is it that the human impulse no matter what happens to someone else in their life we automatically try to wonder what got them there, or what did they do? or begin to jump to conclusions and begin the judgment process on them?

Do you start from the premise that people are generally good or that people are generally bad?

I heard a story about a neighbor who looked outside the window at the neighbors laundry and then complained to her husband about how dirty the laundry was on her neighbors clothes line: she pointed out how dirty the whites were, how the blue jeans had a gray tint to them and she could not believe how dirty all the clothes looked, and how she would be ashamed to let her family wear clothes that dirty! After a couple of days the husband got up early one morning and cleaned the windows. The next time the wife looked out the window she was amazed at how clean the clothes were, she commented to her husband that the lady must have got her washer fixed because now the clothes looked clean, the husband told the wife he got up early and cleaned our windows. The woman had been looking through a dirty filter and that is why they now looked looked clean. Now, you can change the role of the husband and wife and we are both guilty of looking at other peoples laundry through a dirty filter. WE should make sure our house is in order before we start condemning someone Else’s house. This can be applied to all areas of life!

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. - Sioux Indian prayer