It’s super easy to judge people. It seems like our second nature to form opinions about other people.
This applies not only to people of the world, but also to born-again Christians.
How easy it is to form an opinion about someone else’s actions. To point out how you would have acted more appropriately in this situation. I myself sometimes catch myself looking at the actions of other Christians and wondering if the action is in line with Papa God’s will. The conclusion in this is usually no.
The unfortunate thing about this is that sometimes I doubt my brother or sister’s commitment to Jesus. Even though I know better, sometimes the old wants to take over. The question of whether this brother or sister is really a child of God arises, with the judgment that the action has nothing to do with the Word.
Fortunately, I have the Holy Spirit within me, who promptly corrects me. The Holy Spirit lets me know that I am wrongly passing judgment on a child of Papa God, (we are all His children, despite our walk), and that judging is not up to me.
How thankful I am for the Holy Spirit for loving me so much and correcting me when necessary.
The moment the Holy Spirit corrects me I realize my sin, upon which I immediately ask for forgiveness from Papa. And then, thanks to the grace of Jesus, I am immediately forgiven. But the most beautiful thing this grace brings about in my life is that He has given you and me the same grace. Don’t you know that you yourself are the temple of God and that His Spirit dwells in you? 1 Corinthians 3:16
The Holy Spirit shows me that this brother or sister’s actions are not in line with Papa’s Word, but He also clearly shows that we as old sinners sometimes react or act according to the flesh or the soul and therefore we make mistakes. This brother or sister is also forgiven the moment forgiveness is asked of Papa. Papa God is a God of 2nd and 3rd and 4th and 5th chances!
In conclusion, we have a new nature thanks to Jesus Christ, He made us new! And all this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to Himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, which is, that in Christ God was reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and that He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Corinthians 5:17-19
