who's job is it anyway?

Matthew 7

1 "Do not judge others,

and you will not be judged.

2 For you will be treated as you treat others.

The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.

  3 "And why worry about a speck in your friend's eye when you have a log in your own?

4 How can you think of saying to your friend,

'Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,'

when you can't see past the log in your own eye?

5 Hypocrite!

First get rid of the log in your own eye;

then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend's eye.

There's a saying or thought that has been passed around FB lately.

It may be a bit of an oversimplification, but then again, maybe not.

It goes like this...

“It's the Holy Spirit's job to convict...

“God the Father's job to judge...

(I would add this next one.)

“Jesus' job is to redeem...

(& finally...)

“It is our job to love.”

I remember seeing these thoughts for the first time in a graphic...

I was truck by the truth contained in it.

One of the chief criticisms leveled at Christians these days is that we're judgemental.

(you can take that to mean we're mean spirited.)

urbandictionary.com defines judgemental as...

1. A way of making ones self feel better, by hurting others. Usually caused by closed mindedness, and a lack of manners.
2. Feeling the right to judge, and doing so.

Yeah, I'd say that's the way the world views us.

I find the “a lack of manners” part to be pretty funny - & pretty on target ;-)

Somewhere along the line it would seem that we've lost some of our street cred as people who love & are thought to be primarily other things.

Jesus goes on to basically say how dare we be so tacky to judge others when there is PLENTY of stuff in all our lives for which to judge each one of us.

Let's think about that as we move around & about His children today...