In judgment (according to Boyd) is what happened in the garden. Is this the outcome of pride? The tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We are to ascribe unsurpassable worth to others at cost to ourselves- agape love.
In judgment we ascribe worth to ourselves at the cost of others. "At least I'm not like that." A critic separates between good and bad. When we are critical of other people we judge them as good or bad. Separates people.
Accountability is good. We discern. It distinguishes between things. It is not judgment.
When we judge we take our sins and minimize them and maximize other sins as worse. Jesus says in Matthew 7- don't look at other people's sin, look at your own first. And Paul says consider ourselves the wost of sinners. Not to make us feel bad since there is no condemnation in Christ but to have look first at our own sin and not judge others as worse for their sin.
What are our brains saying when we see other people? Do we judgment about eating and clothes and salvation etc.. Did God appoint us to judge everyone or to agree with God that each person we see was worth Jesus dying for. They are that valuable to God. He ascribes great worth to each person. We are all made in His image. And the perspective of God is truth. See their unsurpassable worth even while they are still sinners. They could not have more worth than they have right now. Bless each one we see. In the our Father.. forgive us as we forgive those who sin against us. We want to be forgiven as someone who Christ died for. We need to see others a someone who Christ died for and paid for. Jesus didn't say as some other sin against us but he made no exclusions.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
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