SO YOU THINK YOU CAN JUDGE ME?

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That girl you called a slut today, is actually a virgin for the records. I know you don’t believe me because you saw her rocking a Peruvian hair with lips almost dripping of red lipsticks and donning a miniskirt that barely held her vibrating buttocks. Yes! She is still a virgin.

We are often quick to judge people who do not meet up to our moral expectations and attempt to impose our standards on them. We move around criticizing and searching for faults in people, even where there is little or no evidence to back it up. We spend more time condemning others than we spend evaluating our own actions. Hence, becoming self-righteous judges and career hypocrites.

So I asked myself, why are we this overly critical of our fellow men? In my opinion, our ‘holier than thou’ attitude is borne out of the conviction of self-righteousness. We pass judgment on people just because we think we are morally superior to them and their sins are greater when compared to ours.

Who are you to become judge over others? How can you ask to remove the speck from another man’s eye when there is a plank in your own eye? It is good to try to improve others with positive criticisms but we should not always be self-righteous or have a judgmental spirit. When you spend time pointing fingers at other people, your attention is distracted from your own problems.

Does this mean that we should never judge people or have an opinion about their conduct? We should not be in a haste to judge anyone whose shoes we have not walked in. If we realized what some people have gone through in life, we will admire them instead of condemning them. We always criticize people not realizing that we might turn out worse if faced with similar circumstances like them.

Self-righteous judgments always have rebounds. For with whatever judgment you judge others, you will be judged also; and with the same measure you employ, the same shall be measured back to you. If you start to condemn people self-righteously, be rest assured that others will condemn you in the same degree. Don’t be in a hurry to judge someone because they don’t behave like you expect them to. Remember, there was once upon a time when you didn’t know what you know today.

The only person you should be so critical of should be yourself. This is because, you can only pass judgment on someone when you have overwhelming evidence to back it up. Our judgment is mostly limited to the evidence we can provide and there is a limit to what we can see. We look at the outward appearance more than we look at the heart. We can’t know the heart of every man. There is really no way we can know the heart, intents or situation of the people we find reasons to judge. Only God can.