Jesus’ challenge for His followers today is not easy. He tells His disciples to stop judging. This is difficult for most of us to do.  Judgment comes from deep within us  and sometimes we do it quite unconsciously. 

We all have standards.  Most of them we learned at a very young age through our parents and family members.  As young children, we didn’t even know we were adopting standards of thought and behaviour. Thus, our family standards and rules typically are unconscious.  These standards and rules often lead us to judge another person’s behaviour or attitude without even realizing that we are doing so.

Most of what we learned as children was essential to us. However, some of the learned attitudes of judgment that may hinder us in significant ways. 

Today, ask Jesus to remove the “wooden beam from your eye” so that you may have more compassion and understanding with yourself and with others.  When we realize that we are judging, we then have the opportunity to step back and consciously release our judgment.  After all, who are we to judge?  We don’t appreciate it when other people judge us without knowing the whole story.  No one appreciates being judged.

May we today set judgment aside as best as we  can.  Strive to be mindful of when we are making a judgment.  The reality is that judgment is God’s work, not ours. Today, may we let God be God!

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