To judge....OR NOT!

Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgement you judge, you will be judged; and with the same measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck out of your eye'; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye. Matthew 7:1-5 (NKJ)
This has been weighing on my heart A lot lately, I am guilty of judging others. In my experience I have outright judged and then sometimes my thoughts about someone are judgmental. I know it is wrong unfortunately sinner nature is like that. God is working on me with this and I believe  He is doing a great job with me, every once in a while I catch myself thinking judgmental thoughts and I check myself. God is the only judge around it is not my place nor do I want it to be. Being judgmental is hurtful, the saying don't judge a book by it's cover is so true. When we look at someone what do we see? What do we think? What is our first impression of them? with out taking the time to get to know someone we automatically JUDGE them.....they may be the sweetest person in the world but, if we do not like the way they look or sound when they talk we tend to write them off.  It is sinner nature..what we need is JESUS NATURE...I am not saying throw caution to the wind because sometimes our instincts are right but, don't just assume someone is a bad egg because we do not like what we see. God sees our hearts, He knows our thoughts, He knows when we judge, we can not get away with it, when God is our parent. We need to take care of our issues before we can "take care" of someone else's, frankly I have enough issues of my own I am a bit busy to worry about someone else's speck but, I can pray for them and love them like I should and keep my judgmental thoughts away. I have met 2 friends on Twitter they both live in different States and I am excited to get to know them through email and messages I love making new friends. Getting to know someone even through an email is so much better than just writing them off.

That's my thought for the day,

Crazy for Christmas