For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you…Matthew 6:14

“How could you do that?” He asks.

“How could you not?” I want to ask him…

He is busy judging my actions…

I am busy judging his….

 Both of us forgetting what God has said about not judging others …

 “Judge not, that you be not judged …” Matthew 7:1-5

“Forgetting the consequences of  judging others …

…with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you… Matthew 7:1-5

Foolishly thinking we have the clarity of vision to judge anyone…

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. Matthew 7:1-5

Deluding ourselves into thinking we are better than those we judge…

…in humility value others above yourselves… Philippians 2:3

Forgetting that judgment is a power reserved for God alone …

There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? James 4:12

 A power which even God abandons to love…

…God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  Romans 5:8

Abandons to love and grace…

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:8-9