Thursday January 27, 2011

Warning Against Judging Others

James 4:11-12

¹¹ Don’t speak evil against each other, dear brothers and sisters.  If you criticize and judge each other, then you are criticizing and judging God’s law. But your job is to obey the law, not to judge whether it applies to you. ¹² God alone, who gave the law, is the Judge. He alone has the power to save or to destroy. So what right do you have to judge your neighbor?

I'm not sure how many of you got the opportunity to watch Piers Morgan interview Joel Osteen and his wife last night, but it was awesome.  Piers asked and made statements to Joel more than once, "because of the position you hold,  you are a judge".  This was asked and stated in different ways to try and back him into a corner about judgement and judging others.  Joel and Victoria didn't back down or away from the questions.   

I want to say this:  God is the ultimate judge, but where the world likes to entrap and entangle us into trying to look or sound hypocritical, is by twisting words or by asking "why are you making judgement about these issues"?  The key words in this verse are, "Live by God's law".  Not by what we think or feel is right, but by HIS law,  God's Law.  Here is the problem with this scenario, the person normally on the defense is the person engulfed in sin and more than likely not of the Christian Faith.  The reason I use the word "engulfed" in sin is because all of us were born into sin and none can say I live a sin free life.  We will and we all have fallen short of the Glory of God.  That is why He sent His son Jesus Christ to be the final sacrifice for the world's sin.  We all need God's mercy and grace and we are called to show mercy and grace.  We should love, honor and have compassion for one another.  For those struggling are feeling like your under attack, I say this; read the Bible and seek the Lord with your heart of heart's, try and seek what God wants for your life.  Remember this, if our Lord & Savior was attacked for his teaching's we should arm ourselves for the same.  The enemy has a stronger hold than ever and is relentless on his pursuit to destroy all things close to God.  We all need to spread more mercy and less judgement.  Let God be the judge and let's all of us be the vessel that God uses to spread His Word and to love one another.

I want to thank all of you for your support and starting your day with "God's cup of Coffee".  

P.S.  Don't forget to keep lifting up Hailey Dunn & her family in prayer.

Godspeed,

James Boening