On May 21, 2005, I wrote in my journal about judging others. In Romans 2:1, it says, "When you judge others, you condemn yourselves, because you are guilty of doing the very same things."
"And I said, "Yes! I know this to be true, because you cannot see in others what you yourself have not experienced. You cannot recognize today what you have not known personally yesterday. Another way to put it is, If I did not experience wanting to be in control of a situation myself, I would not recognize controlling from someone else. I would know what it is that I see, because it is in me.
"This might be argued, I suppose, if a friend is unfaithful to her husband, for example. You might know that it is wrong even although you have not been unfaithful to your own husband. Yet we can recognize temptation of any kind, having been tempted ourselves in some way. so we have compassion for one who has been tempted and for the one hurt by the other's temptation.
"Either way, Judging is wrong. If we discern another either being tempted or having been hurt by someone who was tempted, we can find compassion for them. But to judge them would be wrong. If we discern some action in another, own it yourself in a quiet conversation and offer to help. The difference between discernment and judging is the attitude we bring to it."
"Lord, teach me how to discern, to be truthful and helpful without judging. Amen."
Today, I still know this to be true: we cannot claim someone else has a fault unless we ourselves have personally known it. "It takes one to know one," the old adage, is definitely true.
Just think that we are all in this life together where loving others like Jesus did is virtually unknown. What was written about today is only one way to love another. Yet, it would definitely be remembered and recorded in someone's unconscious brain cells!
Loving someone is always made note of,
Jo INMN
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