Who are you to judge?
Monday, March 2, 2009
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?
--James 4:12
In John 8:7 , Jesus said to the crowd, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." (NKJV) Basically, The Pharisees had caught an adulteress in the act and wanted to see what Jesus would do. Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger. We don't know what He wrote, but scholars believe that He was writing down the sin of everyone in the crowd, from the oldest to the youngest.
The bible says in James 2:10, "For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it." So that means that we are all equally guilty. It is not for us to judge how righteous or unrighteous others are, because we are the same. One little white lie carries the same weightage of a murder. Both are sin, and both hurt God.
