Luke 6:37-42
Judging Others
37 “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
39 He also told them this parable: “Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit? 40 The student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher.
41 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 42 How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
1 John 4:8
God is LOVE
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
John 13:31-38
Love One Another
31 When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once.
33 “My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.
34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
36 Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?”
Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.”
37 Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
38 Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!
Matthew 22:34-40
The Greatest Commandment
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:
36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37 Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
If God is LOVE and if love is involved there are very good and many arguments to be made for all those who are made and created in the Image of God...All people then are our neighbors in the eyes of our Heavenly Father...But it seems that we do not consider that they also are made in the Image of God...We do not look at those we judge on their intellect or ideas when we are judging others...So it seems that it is much be easier to judge and be critical of others than to complement them and to love them...Are we comparing them to what we like and what we do?...Why is man judgmental and critical?...
We should take more lightly on what we hear about others, because they too are made in the Image of God...It seems that sometimes what we hear about others, becomes what we believe and think about them...Jesus never did that...Jesus often would sit down with others and listen to them about what they believed and what they thought about...He listened to them and often questioned them to learn and for them to learn not only about themselves, but about Him...
Jesus had an open, forgiving loving heart toward all the people He talked to...And we should learn from this...Let us too, sit down with others, listen to them, and be forgiving and have an open heart all who are made in the Image of God..