This past year or so I’ve learned a lot about myself. I’ve learned good things and I’ve some not so good things about me. One of these “not so good things” is that I can be very judgmental. I’m so quick to make assumptions or decide what’s right and wrong for someone else.
I’ve never seen it as a bad thing until recently. I’ve been in many Christian programs, events, and situations where it was very normal to judge others. It was basic behavior to rebuke others in their sin. Christians left and right talking about other Christians shamelessly sharing the wrong doings of others.
This type of behavior is toxic. It’s one of the many reason why people don’t want to follow Jesus. No one likes to feel shame.
I’m beginning to learn and realize I don’t want to be this type of Christian. I don’t want to think of people negatively or assume the worst. I want to meet and talk to others for myself. I want to learn about all walks of life with open arms and if I don’t agree with someone, I want to learn more about why they think what they think. I want to approach others in love and kindness, not hate and judgement.
I know I’m not perfect and I won’t pretend to be so I won’t expect perfection from others either. I’m officially dropping my stones.
“When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”
At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.””
??John? ?8:7, 9-11?
