Judging Without Asking the Person (TMF:1143)

Wednesday, June 05, 2019
Peace to Live By: Judging Without Asking the Person (TMF:1143) - Daniel Litton
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       When others say hurtful things to you, often it is because Satan is capitalizing on the weakness of that person to bother you. That particular brother or sister hasn’t been keeping watch on this faultfinder area in his or her life, and Satan can take advantage of that weakness greatly to hurt you and others. And often we judge and criticize other people without asking them anything first. Most of the time when we are thinking negatively about someone else or another ministry, we are just jealous of whatever it is. But, if we do have a legitimate concern, which is rare, we typically go ahead and criticize and speak negatively before we find out if our assumption is correct or incorrect. A problem for us is that we often like to criticize others who do things differently than we do. Remember, with God there are many ways to doing things, and all of his ways are correct in his eyes. Like, there are many ways to share the Gospel, for instance. Often, though, we think that if someone doesn’t do things how ‘we’ think they should do it, then the person or ministry is in fact in the wrong.