COMPASSION NOT JUDGEMENT

Matthew 7:2
For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.
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I started with my first company and have trained about 20 engineers and supervisors about Six Sigma. When I transferred to my second company, the methodology is somewhat different. I have to learn it myself during my first 6 months. When it is my turn to teach, it was a learning experience both for me and my students. I don’t what that in the end, both me and them would understand nothing from the process. I can always say in the end that they did not listen or were not interested, but it could always go back to me. They may, in return, say that I was not a good teacher – failing to meet the expectation with which I tried to measure them in the first place.

From the moment we wake up in the morning, until the time we retire at night, we would have made dozens of judgments to determine a variety of activities to perform, how, where and when to perform them. Judging is a mental process by which we evaluate facts in order to reach a decision or opinion. Our Lord did not mean it literally when He said we should stop judging. What Jesus meant first of all was, we should “Stop judging by appearances, but judge justly”. He was warning us against being self-righteous and critical on moral issues, but instead to be careful and loving when we judge as we will surely face the same standard that we are using.

If we must be the judge of others for their faults or omissions, let us examine ourselves first, and see if we are living up to the standard of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who will be our Final Judge. Thus if we judge without mercy, then God will judge us without mercy. If we make hasty judgments on the outward man and neglect to see the inner man, will not God do so to us? This is a powerful and fearful idea. Do not judge so you will not be judged. Learn to show compassion, not judgment so the God in Heaven may judge you rightly.

Almighty Father, in regarding others, help us to ‘put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another… putting on love, which is the bond of perfection’ so that we may receive the same. Amen.

Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.