To Judge or Not to Judge

Judging our rules is something the courts do here in the U.S.A, but judging one another is a different concept. Who is qualified to judge? Reading an article by Meg Glidden, she says that we need to keep an "open mind" and realize the differences in all people, always being respectful when we don't agree. We are not to be critics but remember we are all from different backgrounds, according to where we were raised and what we were taught. Until we understand were the other person is coming from, we have no right to make a judgment. As it says in Matthew 7:1, "Judge not that ye be not judged." This does not remedy the problem because we, as humans, believe we are right.

We all have civil rights as listed in the "Bill of Rights" in our American Constitution. John Wilkes Booth wrote a book entitled, "Right or Wrong, God Judge Me." Imagine committing a crime of assassination of the president of the United States, and writing this book. He had many many people judging him, but he believed that God would be his ultimate judge.

It is best that we remember Romans 14:12&13, "So then everyone of us shall give account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another anymore: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way." If you can live with this, then who are we to judge?