“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. (Matt 7:1-6).
This post is for me:
I have no right to judge others nor condemn them. There is only one judge of Mankind and there are those He has appointed to meet out the earthly corrections as He sees fit. I can only inform, guide or instruct from the benefits of my own experience. Not my opinion. My opinion does not matter. No one can argue with my experience. They may express their opinion about the matter but that is their concern. No one can deny my experiences because they are my experiences. If I recount a tale of my experiences and exaggerate or lie, then I am not talking of my experiences but weaving a tale.
Similarly, my experiences might not match someone else's but that does not make my experiences false or less valid and neither does it there's.
I often speak of things I do not have any experience of and express opinions. My opinions can be charitable or vicious, some where in between or both, depending on my mood or sometimes, as a consequence of my experience. Here again I am not recounting my experience but a version of it.
If a similar occurrence of an experience happens then that is not the same experience, it may be lived and felt differently. Sometimes this creates confusion but it shouldn't because I am undergoing a different experience and not the same one, even though the circumstances may appear similar. They are not the same but two different experiences revealing two different outcomes. Also, no person can experience two things at one and the same time. Differing emotions may occur during a particular experience. Those are differing responses and reactions to the same experience but the experience cannot be repeated even though other experiences may bear a similarity. They are not the same.
My view or reaction to an experience may be very different to the experience itself. Again, this is not the experience but a reaction or coloured view of it, positive or negative.
When I look upon others with these views do I really see reality or a coloured view of it? Do I judge with my opinion or with my experience? Who am I to judge anyway? Am I innocent? Am I guilty? What business is it of mine? Does it affect me or just what I want people to believe about me? Have I done anything to impact on, improve or affect the situation positively or negatively?
Can I judge?
Should I judge?
Do I really know?
Am I professing one thing and practising another?
All that is required of me is that I surrender my will, confess my faults and put right any mistakes I may make, ask for guidance and try to turn my attention to helping others who ask me for my
help or who I can see struggling, make myself available to be of service to others and do the next right thing put in front of me.
Offering my opinion and my thoughts to people when they are not required or requested, sharing my inmost secrets in public and giving my power away to people because I am afraid of them is like throwing pearls to pigs. My experience tells me that I get trampled underfoot and torn to pieces.
