Matthew 7:1-5
Judging Others
1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 “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? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
When Jesus teaches us not to judge others, it is a teaching about hypocrisy...And it is not just the ignorant, the intellectual, the spiritual, the believer or the non-believer, who once in a while judges others...This is a universal teaching about our neighbor...It seems that Jesus in reminding us not to judge others, should prove to us that we do this more than we think and maybe we have this blind spot, when we do judge others - and we just are not realizing we are doing it...So, from a Divine point of view we are probably more hypocritical than we think...So, we should think more about this teaching and realize that while we surely can see this small speck of sawdust in our neighbor's eye, while lodged under our own eyelid is this plank that we have forgotten about...