Today, I decided I would not be judgmental. Not so easy sometimes, when you've been working with people for a long while. It is very easy to label them and generalize.
But at the end of the day, I reminded myself of my morning pledge. OK so every one has a reason they act the way they do, say the things they do. Judge not lest ye be judged. Indeed, I'm sure people judge me too, based on past actions and words.
Judge, in an official government sense - is to make a decision. Did that person cheat on their unemployment? Did that person willfully violate the worker safety law, putting workers at risk? Did that person willfully violate someone's constitutional right to free assembly? These judges are intended to be unbiased representatives here on earth, to uphold the law. The laws of the people, not their own whim.
When it comes down to it, none of us is suited to be the ultimate judge. Hence the "horizontal relationship" we all have with our Creator. One and many.
During the Easter season, I was reading some special Easter devotionals, and this one showed up on Easter Sunday:
"Your witness-bearing for Jesus is your chief concern. 'As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abides in the vine' (John 15:4) "
Tomorrow I will again see if I can make it through the day without judging, but remembering my chief concern.
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