Don't Judge Me T L Leatherman
How many judgements do we make in a day? What we will wear, this shirt is cool, those pants are too small now but, I am going to wear them anyway; as a tribute to my denial of weight gain. What we will eat, or whether we will eat at all.
Then we go meet the day, and we make judgements about other people. "Why is that idiot in that lane", "she looks gorgeous I'll bet she......." and people make judgements about us. Why is that creep in the too small jeans staring at me?
But as christians, we are not supposed to judge, are we? We believe as the bible teaches, that the measure we use to judge others will be used on us. That  tends to level the playing field a bit. However, we seem to find loopholes around that, especially when we know we are right. After all "they" are heritics and don't realize they're in danger of the fires of hell. Gay marriage; "Heavens no! Thats an abomination against God". Abortion; "They are murderers!" Alcoholics;" Why do people do that to themselves?" " I'm not racist, but..."
Ironicly, when things get really elevated on these subjects, something usually does end up on fire.
Think of the very worst thing someone could do. Now picture yourself doing it, because any one of us is capable of the most henious crime if we are put in the right set of circumstances. Even without the perfect storm of circumstances, we've done enough already, haven't we? If we were honest with ourselves, all the things that we point fingers at, we are guilty of in some form or another. It would serve us well, when we start thinking we got all the righteous answers, to keep in mind, to God, a sin is a sin and we all are sinners; Born again or not.
I wonder if in Jesus' time on earth, he might have met a gay person. I wonder how Jesus would have made that person feel when talking to him or her. What would Jesus be thinking about that person while they were talking? What kind of body language would be going on?
When you talk to people do they feel like they are talking to a friend of Jesus?