Imagine how pleased God would be if we followed His instruction. What would happen if we actually began to love one another with sincerity?
Imagine the magnitude of what could be accomplished for the Kingdom if we stopped exerting energy on the judgment of others and simply started loving. Placing judgment is not our duty. Loving is.
We are called to use our energy for action in sharing pure love with one another. If this was done, I believe that far more people would come to see the true light of God. It can be as simple as bringing a meal to a neighbor, calling to check-in after a hard day for a friend, opening the door for a stranger with a smile or volunteering your time or resources to a cause you believe in.
Someone’s faith, race, gender, political beliefs or social status should never determine someone’s value. We are ALL His great works and deserving of love.
In today’s culture, the presence of self-righteousness, pride, anger, power, greed, control and even preference is all over. None of which is holy. Worse, when this type of behavior is coming from Christians, it only further alienates people from seeing Jesus in us. It is through us, that others may come to see the light of the gospel.
Today I challenge us all to refrain from the act of judgment; taking inventory on thoughts and actions. Instead, lets live out our lives illuminating love and truth in obedience to God so that others may see a true reflection of His mighty ways.
In the book How People Grow, it is said; “We desired to control things we could not control, including each-other, and we lost control of ourselves. We tried to become the judge, and we ended up being judgmental instead; we lost our ability to experience life and each other by exercising the very judgment we desired. We stopped obeying Gods design and rules and made up our own” (Cloud and Townsend, 2001, p.35).
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