Wisdom

Wow! I can’t believe that the end of Spiritus year is almost here! We have only a few weeks left. This year had a lot of blessings. One of the blessings has been wisdom. I received a lot of insights about life and how to live.

One insight was from Romans Chapter 2- “No matter who you are, if you pass judgment you have no excuse. In judging others you condemn yourself, since you behave no differently from those you judge.”

I have noticed, especially when living in community, the things that people do that bothers me the most, I do myself. For example, one time a team member stole my seat, and this made me mad and I wanted to judge him. Then a day later I stole a team member’s seat and I laughed when I did it. It really is humbling that a lot of things that I want to judge or condemn others, I do myself. It seems we are more inclined to judge because we are more aware of the weakness and/or it is something in ourselves that we don’t like. Humility is the key and only God’s grace can keep you humble. There is a definite peace about not always being at war with others by judging them, in order to try to convince ourselves of the lie that we are the best, while also overlooking our weaknesses. Pride is a moral disorder, and it is the root of all sin.

By “never judging” we should mean not thinking we are better than other people. Of course by “never judging others” shouldn't use to reinforce our culture’s moral relativism. Which is belief in no absolute moral laws and everything comes down to an individual’s emotional and intellectual consciousness. It just becomes a defense mechanism when is told (even when it is out of love for the other person) that is it better for them if they don’t act in a certain way or they should start acting in a certain way, they claim “who are you to say that?” Its not that they think they are better, but there are objective moral truths. 

God Bless,

Dennis