Refuge for a Single Mom

We’ve all heard the expression ‘judge and jury’. Right? It means that some people are so arrogant, that not only do they ‘try’ you for faults and sins, but they ‘convict’ you as well.

Critical people, or those that criticize, are judging, even faultfinding. They criticize (or judge) your way of life, how you fix your hair or wear your make-up, how you raise your children . . . People deem it necessary to criticize you for just about anything they can think of. (It has become so popular in fact, perhaps they should include this as a new sport in the Olympics!)

Regardless, find comfort in this:

1 Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. 2 And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things. 3 But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who WILL RENDER TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS: 7 to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; 8 but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation. 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek, 10 but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with God.  Romans 2:1-11

In a nutshell, we need to realize that God is the only true judge. Therefore, not only does it NOT matter what people think of us . . . it really doesn’t matter what we think of them either! *smile*

Rest assured, God is keeping track!

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