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. — Matthew 7:1-2
Some time ago, my son and I were on the floor and we were playing with his toy blocks. He loves various block sets, where he can build different things. Some create spaceships, some boats, and others buildings or cars. His favorite is building pirate ships.
As we were building this day, I started putting the blocks in a certain way. He proceeded to tell me that it was wrong. It certainly didn’t look wrong, but it wasn’t how he thought it should be. He kept telling me that I was wrong and the blocks were wrong.
When I looked at what he was building, he was doing something completely different than the instructions said. Things were backward, misaligned, and so much more. When I tried to point it out to him, he wasn’t having it. This was how he wanted it, and I was going to have to accept it.
If only life was really that simple. Christians across the world are told that just because something is wrong, we should keep our mouths shut and accept it. We’re told it is this way in the name of tolerance, often using these words from Matthew as justification.
But the words of this verse are not that we simply accept the things going on around us. God never expected Christians to sit silently while sin was allowed to run rampant around them. The idea of judgment is much different than what the world wants to tell us it is.
Instead of being influenced by the world’s ideas and definitions, we live life by God’s standards. Our lips shouldn’t be silent about God’s expectations. Fear shouldn’t be the first thing that crosses our minds when we see something wrong. Instead, it should be that God guides our hearts in the right way to take a stand for truth.
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