Wrong judgement

8 December 2010.

James 2:2-4 For if a man with gold rings and in fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, "Have a seat here, please," while you say to the poor man, "Stand there," or, "Sit at my feet," have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

Fine clothes do not necessary make a fine person, we so often judge people on outward appearances and then find that they are not as we expected them to be. Many years ago a man dressed in dirty overalls walked into a motor dealer and asked the price of a brand new truck. The salesman looked at him and because of the way he was dressed dealt with him in an off-handed way. When the man said he would by the truck on display and that he needed it that afternoon, the salesman insisted that he must pay cash. At about 2pm the man walked into the motor dealer dressed in a very expensive suit, with a brief case filled with the correct amount of cash, in those days R200 000.00 in two rand notes. The salesman had not submitted the papers for registration and did not believe that the dirty man in overalls had the cash to buy the truck. The man insisted that the salesman count the money and that before close of business he wanted to drive the truck out the dealership.

We are all at some stage or another like the salesman and on other occasions the person in dirty clothes, we therefore should be careful about making judgements about people before getting to know them. In the same way we should not deal with people differently, and treat each person in the same way irrespective of how they look, dress or speak.

Be encouraged today to treat people equally.

David

Point to ponder: What is on the inside is more important than what we see from the outside.

Question to consider: Do you judge people by the way they look?

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