You shall be judged as you judge...

Wow, I feel that I'm walking in a minefield with this one. One of the hardest topics to speak about is Judgement. Mainly because we are all guilty of this at some point. It is something that we will do for many reasons. To display our feelings and emotions, to let someone know how wrong they are, sometimes to let others know what someone has done or what they are like. Social media is a hotbed for this. Everyday I see it, facebook especially.

I remember how judging and being judged was such a big problem in my army days while we were serving in Northern Ireland. Every time we left the camp we were suspicious of everybody, making us look at the public with extreme caution wondering if they were terrorists. This lead to stereotyping innocent people. On the other side, we were seen as the enemy by some, aggressive soldiers come to dominate their country. Of course this was not the case but this practice of judging and being judged was causing so many problems and bad feelings.

Judging others is such a dangerous practice mainly because the standards we judge people with, we rarely meet ourselves. Yet again that saying from Jesus comes to mind. "Let him without sin cast the first stone". The Bible is very clear on this subject. You only have to read Matthew 7 in the New Testament to see what I mean. It states, Judge and you shall be judged. There is also a good passage about wiping the dust from your brothers eye. That's really worth reading. I do realise that this is part of our makeup and sometimes we do this to protect ourselves from harm. We are all very guilty of it, I am not saying everybody should stop it immediately, this would be very hypocritical and unrealistic but there is no harm in allowing yourself to stop and think and ask yourself that old question again. "Am I in a position to throw the first stone?" I certainly am not.

Check out these two passages from the Bible: Matthew 7 & John 8