The most powerful thing for
the follower of Jesus is simply Jesus.
Him in our lives changes how we thing about ourselves and how we deal
with others. Turn that around and
understand why we often treat others so poorly.
If we don’t believe and apply what God says about us, we will believe
wrong things about the people we are around.
Below is a passage of
Scripture that speaks directly to how we judge or how we accept others. Read slowly through these verses and note the
ways we are to treat the people we come in contact with.
Matthew
7:1-12 NLT
Do not judge
others, and you will not be judged. 2 For you will be treated as you
treat others. The standard you use in judging is the
standard by which you will be judged. 3 “And why worry about a speck in
your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own? 4 How
can you think of saying to your friend, ‘Let me help you get rid of that speck
in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite!
First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal
with the speck in your friend’s eye. 6 “Don’t waste what is holy on
people who are unholy. Don’t throw your pearls to pigs! They will trample the
pearls, then turn and attack you. 7 “Keep on asking, and you will
receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking,
and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks, receives.
Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be
opened. 9 “You parents—if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do
you give them a stone instead? 10 Or if they ask for a fish, do
you give them a snake? Of course not! 11 So if you sinful people know
how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly
Father give good gifts to those who ask him.
12 “Do to others
whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is
taught in the law and the prophets.
Don’t
judge people. The verses said that we
will be judged in the same way we measure others.
We
must first deal with our issues before we can help other people deal with their
issues. The log in our eye and the dust
in someone else’s life is more of a reality than we might think. It is seen most in our thoughts of others and
then in the way we interact with them.
God
wants to bless us. Therefore we must
keep on praying and seeking God and seeing how good God is to us. By learning how God treats us we learn how to
treat others.
Literally
the way we treat others speaks volumes about the way we believe God treats
us. May our lives lead us to know that
God loves and accepts them. May we
understand that God loves us an accepts us in the same way.
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