Monday 11 April 2011

Who do you judge?

Today's passage of scripture is in Luke chapter 14. Jesus is talking about being inclusive and not exclusive. He talks about inviting people into our homes that we wouldn't normally, he says, "invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind."
I must be honest I can't ever remember doing this and it has really challenged me. However, I have been thinking about this in a church sinario. How often do we invite new people into our lives? How often do we speak to people at church that are not in the same clique? I know that churches can be a cliquey place, and for some people not a friendly place! How sad is that?
Who are we to judge? Why wouldn't we talk to someone that has just come to know the Lord? Just because someone has a colourful past doesn't mean that we should ignore them! Just because someone has a different bank balance to us does that mean we shouldn't talk to them? NO! Jesus came to save the lost and so we need to get with the programme - we need to be inclusive and not so exclusive. We need to love people as Jesus loves us.
We need to stop judging people by their past, by their looks and start looking at people the way Jesus does. 
REMEMBER... 
"For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you" 

                             SO IF WE ARE JUDGING OTHERS THEN WE WILL BE 
JUDGED THE SAME BY GOD! 
 

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