Luke 7:31-35 ESV
“To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another,
“‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’ For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by all her children.”
How many of us have seen someone doing something and you automatically assume they are one way, or you know what kind of person they are? Is that judging? We see people and their actions and we think we know them or their whole demeanor by simply seeing one aspect of the life, or seeing them do one thing that could be completely out of character for them. I did this yesterday as I was walking the streets of New Orleans. The group I was with saw a trio of people doing something we did not think they should be. We actually could not verify they were doing this but I still judged them. But this is not what we are called to be or do.
Jesus tells us in Luke that John the Baptist didn’t drink wine or eat bread and people said he had a demon and Jesus drank and ate and he was a glutton. So maybe we are not a good judge of character…
So who have you judged lately that you really don’t know the situation of their life?
Let’s learn about others lives and live in relationships with them before we assume who they are and why they do what they do.
aSacredRebel 