About Judgment

Many humans have done amazing great deeds of serving and sacrificing and giving for centuries, I am thinking especially of religious missionaries in Africa, Asia, and South America. It is amazing, when thinking about it, how many millions of dollars and lives have been invested in serving mankind and yet, it is not enough.

One should wonder if money is the answer. I would argue against it. I have deep respect and would certainly put anyone on a pedestal who serve and sacrifice their entire life for the sake of the unfortunate. But, it is also important to understand that, that alone will not save us from our ultimate inhalation. Why, simply because the fundamental reason of man’s misery is within his soul.

One of the mistakes that all humans make is the mistake of judgment. We pass judgment on others in the daily course of our day; we do it not just once but many a times, each and every day. We pass judgment about religious, business, and political behaviors of our peers simply because they think and act differently than I. This is one of the most fundamental mistakes of us, humans.

Case in point:
A young man from our church recently made the following comment about adoption. Why would a couple adopt only from another couple of the same church? There are so many children out there who need to be adopted. There are many ways to review and response to this question. One is obvious; it has a religious connection, which makes just plain sense. To me, the second part of the comment is a lot more important than the first part. He is passing judgment according to his way of thinking and that is where we always go wrong.

He is basically accusing other people of not adopting these hopeless children. Why, should judgment be passed? Be my guest, adopt children from where ever background you would like, I will not pass judgment, I will command you for your giving heart, and respect the way you found to help your fellow man. But, please, do not judge me for not doing so. My sacrifice, my ability to serve mankind is just different, not wrong, just different.

Religious people should know better, but we still fall into the pattern above and delay spiritual process every time we do so.

Another Case in point:
I have witness and read many vitriolic comments about the thoughts, behaviors, and decisions of the President of our country. I cannot argue any of the points because I am not politically savvy and do not pretend to understand all the issues at hand. However, from the standpoint of a religious person, I believe a different attitude would be more helpful. I hope that those of us who endlessly criticized and put down the leader of our country, do get on their knees every night and ask God to help, guide, and nurture this president of ours that he will make the correct decisions for the benefit of mankind according to God’s point of you.