Judging others..

I’ve been thinking ... and you all know my mind wanders onto different paths.  🤷🏻‍♂️

I believe many of our founding fathers were Biblical scholars in that they possessed a deep understanding of the Bible. I see this in both their personal writings and in the documents that define and founded our country. 

I’ve long been curious about how some of these men were able to discern the potential weaknesses of the government they were establishing and warn against what could destroy it. 

I find those warnings being used as a blueprint by enemies within our country today. Even more so, I find admonishments from the Bible being used to destroy this country as well.

We are very judgmental of others.

The Bible tells us not to judge the motives of others, yet that is exactly what we are doing. The Bible also instructs us to judge ourselves first before judging the actions of other Christians. 

This is at the very crux of the social issue of racism. Some Black Americans believe they are judged by the color of their skin. Then turn around and judge White Americans by the color of their skin. Just as the Bible counsels against Christians judging non-Christians, is a White American qualified to judge a Black American and vice versa? Certainly not in an internal motivational sense and so we are left to judge action (or in-action, I suppose) just as Christian’s are to judge other Christian’s sinful actions after first judging our own sinful actions. We are to leave judgement of (internal) motivation to God. Only God is to judge our heart. 

And the hatred we witness on display? Proverbs 9:8 explains, “Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.” This is not so much about general mental intelligence as it is about familiarity - Christians are not to judge non-Christians by Christian standards. I think a lot of our social problems stem from White’s judging Black‘s as if they were white and vice versa when our basis of judgement should be judging one another as Americans. 

(Insert any race, gender or creed in place of black and or white)