The Bible
is not trail mix!
WOW! How
can anyone read these statements and not feel a twinge of guilt? I seem
to live there. I absolutely love the parts in Psalms where God is right there
for you when you need Him, but tend to forget the parts like “judge not, lest
ye be judged.” It was rather apparent about a month ago…I am so
judgmental. I form an opinion by a look someone gives me, or silence
perceived as anger. I think I have a superhero power to assume the worst
about people. And it’s not good. About a month ago, my husband was
sitting listening to a preaching cd in our office. I heard the special
before the preaching started, and started having horrible thoughts like, “Wow,
that person is way off key. That was rough. I wonder who is singing that
badly.” I walk in the office to ask my husband who that horrible singer
is, only to realize midsentence, that it sounds an awful lot like me. I ask
him, “Is that me?” He looks at me, totally bewildered, and said,
“Yes.” I told him what I was thinking and he starts to smirk. (Totally
deserved) I realized then, I wanted to make excuses for why I may have
sounded so badly. I am an emotional singer, everyone sounds different
when they’re recorded, I was nervous. Yet, when you really come down to it, I
just sounded plain bad, no matter the reason. It was a good lesson to
learn. I had formed an opinion about that terrible singer, only to
realize it was me. If I had given that terrible singer the benefit of the
doubt beforehand like I wanted to give myself once I realized it was me, that would have been far better. But we
are so quick to see what everyone else should fix, and we rarely give anyone
the benefit of the doubt. I am so thankful for a God that is patient and
never judges the book by the cover. Each day, I should be striving to become
more like my Heavenly Father—full of patience and not judging by the
exterior.(Frankly, since then, I have become way more lenient with the
judgments of my fellow performers.)
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