“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.” (Luke 7:31-35 ESV)
We all do it, we judge a person for who they are before we hear one word come out of their mouth. We can tell by their appearance, style, body language, tattoos or no tattoos, piercings or no piercings what kind of person they are. You know this drives me crazy! But I am really bad at it myself… We all do it, so just admit it, you judge people by their appearance before you get to know them.
We all say that we played happy music and some one did not dance to it. And we were sad and they were happy. We can not understand how they can react to something differently than we do. Even though we know that we are all made unique by God. We are each created to be unique and set apart from everyone else. We are not robots, and we do not all act and respond the same, so why do we expect everyone else to live up to out expectations?
Did you see the earrings on him? How does he get away with that?
What about the tattoos on her, she looks like trailer park trash. Why doesn’t she clean up her act and wear some decent clothes that cover those things?
Have you ever heard these?
Said these?
Thought these?
Who are we to judge, because obviously those that judged in the gospel today got it wrong, John ate no bread and drank no wine, and he had a demon, and Jesus was a drunkard and a glutton and was also not in the right, so where is the right? Well it is the middle of the road, but someone would have had an issue with that. They should not drink or eat at all, but that doesn’t work either…
We are not to judge others by their appearance, because God doesn’t do that either. He judges by the heart, and we can not possibly know another’s heart, and worrying about our own is enough.
So try to stop judging people by their covers…
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