Critical

3 December  2012

 

Luke 6:37-38 "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back."

To love someone in the name of Jesus Christ is not the same as to love a family member or even sometimes a like minded church member. To love some one as Jesus would allows us to see them as Jesus would and not as we want to. So when a person is a Buddhist we do not condemn them and their family because that is what the belief they were born into, no we simply lead them to Jesus showing them the love that Jesus has for them and the Bible.

Far to often we judge and criticise others with an expectation that in doing so they will conform to our ways, and we believe that our way is the only way. Yet Jesus is Shepherd to many sheep and not all sheep are the same or even have the same needs. So when we want to love some one in the name of Jesus we must listen first to the voice of the Shepherd and not the sheep.

Be encouraged to love others as Jesus would not as you would like.

 

David

Point to ponder: Love the Shepherd.

Question to consider: Are you critical of others?