Matthew 7:1-6
Judging Others
7 “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.
6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
I think we sort of naturally want people to see our point of view, views and our ways...But each of our neighbors are different...So when we compare and compete with others, we can easily fall into criticizing and judging them, because we are all different and have different talents and skill sets...Sometimes we judge them, because they do not things our way...We all have our own set of views and values and talents...When we criticize someone for something they do, it is us judging another neighbor...I believe that when we do this and judge someone critically without putting ourselves into their shoes and seeing their views and ways, we are falling into the traps of the evil one...But the is what the evil one wants us to do...To look at others without considering our own flaws, which are there, and some of our flaws may even match our neighbors flaws...
Let us always see the plank in our own eyes...I think this is one of the reasons Jesus tells us not to judge...Jesus wants us to know that each of us are different and do have different views and ways...To judge someone different often causes a prejudice and bias...Let us look at our neighbor, with one with good but different ideas...We should not look at our neighbor as different and less...When we do this, we approach evil...And we do not want to be near evil, nor his traps...And let us look at Jesus knowing He did not sin, and no deceit came from His mouth...