The Lundys will soon be competing in our annual gingerbread house decorating contest. I always like my designs but usually come in dead last somehow🤣.
I could get upset and try to stop letting anyone judge my gingerbread house decorating skills, but that might just be missing the point.
1 Corinthians 6:2-3 says, “Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?”
People who don’t want to be judged don’t want to submit to the authority judging them.
Only God can judge a person’s heart, their motives and whether they are truly saved. But Christians are called to judge issues as right or wrong, good or bad according to God’s Word. So if Christians judge behavior according to tradition or our whims, people probably should reject that most of the time. But if Christians judge the way God says to judge and according to what God says to judge, then God’s the authority not us. And those rejecting that Biblical judgment are rejecting God.
And I’d encourage those who are quick to point out that Jesus said “Judge not” that they should read the context of that statement (or at least the rest of the sentence!).