Thursday, July 26, 2007

Who am I to judge?

"Who are you to condemn someone else's servants? They are responsible to the Lord, so let him judge whether they are right or wrong. And with the Lord's help, they will do what is right and will receive his approval." Romans 14:3

Human's eyes seek out for imperfection. Hunting flaws might have unknowingly, fueled by humans' innate characteristics, insidiously become human's pastime. I am not saying that there's no saintly thoughts or there's no one whose "super-ego", proposed by Sigmund Freud-a highest set of thoughts in the mind, speaks louder than its Id, but random comments like "hey, I really don't like my Chem. lecturer. She is so and so and so." are easily picked up all around us.
In a Christian life, one might prone to have the tendency of dropping comments on how well the musicians have done on a Sunday worship and on some cranky days, maybe a few slipped notes or pitch deviations. People like to judge on the outcome, especially of others' efforts, voicing up when the frequencies of perceived visuality do not come in flavours of their expectations or rather, what they schemed as a should-be way of things turning out to be. But just for the reasons that others do not swing at your frequency doesn't mean that you could not oscillate. Just because that you'll not approved of the way people do things or that you'll not be in resonance with them does not mean that they are not oscillating the right way for others!
God is the sovereign judge and only in Him lies his standard of judging. Do we have the right to citicize our friends or our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ? Are you feeling ego enough to think that you can play God and do His job?
God promised to help us to do what is right and what He is approved of. So why follow others' expectation. Remember that God's ways are higher than our ways, His thoughts higher than ours. Who can justify His standards except He Himself?