Judgment or Mercy?

 

Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs overS judgment.  Romans 2:12-13

If anything during those months that I spent attending this church, I felt no mercy or freedom. Understand, that at the time I was studying the book of Romans, I was trying to apply it to my own life. It was the leaders in the church that had not bothered to get with me to try to understand what I was living through at the time. I was not "growing" at a fast enough pace for them, and it was during the sermon that had put me down, that told me that. And it had really hurt at the time. Because I had been trying hard to grasp their beliefs as much as I could.

We are sometimes so quick to run to judgment with people when we ourselves have no idea what we might do in the same situation. There is a passage in Mathew that helps remind us, that we need to remember what else God says about it.

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in your own eye? Mathew 7:1-3

In other words, you might say, " We get what we give." And, "Who gives us the right to judge others when we don't know or understand especially, what they might be going through?"

Judgment and mercy. Which do we want for ourselves when we stand before a Holy God? I would hope we would truly want mercy. But if we don't practice it during our lives here on earth, we will probably not see much of it when that time comes. 

I don't know where the leaders of this church are now. Have they learned the difference and do they practice it with the people they know and deal with? Are they even still leaders in a church? As for as myself, I learned something about it during these days that I spent with God and I do try to practice it in my life. I can only judge my own attitudes. I don't always do a great job. But I try. Even if I have to ask God's forgiveness many times for the judgment I render towards someone. 

Thanks for stopping by today, Friends. I suggest to you that when you feel like you are judging the actions of someone, you stop and ask God what you can do to give them the mercy they really deserve. He loves them as he does you. 

God bless,