"jesse, lindsay, and nathan, our grand children"
Dear One,
If you could always see the inner workings of every situation, all of the reasons behind a person’s actions, you would never be tempted to judge a person’s actions. You would never be temped to criticize.
Everyone wants to do his very best in every situation, but you know that alien spirits entice men to do otherwise.
Understanding a person’s background and the reasoning behind a person’s actions always brings mercy and compassion in you and closes the door to your judgment of the other person.
Judging always renders the other person as being below you in stature or personality or looks or social status or athletic skills or financial stability or talents. Judging never assesses another person as better than yourself. It always assesses him as lower than yourself in some way.
Remember the friend who was persecuting you for your relationship with me, and you began to judge the friend as being unworthy of My love because of his persecution of you? Do you remember that I asked you whom you were using as the yardstick? We both knew that you were using yourself as the yardstick and you were assessing him as being inferior to you. He had hurt you and you were hurting him in return in your mind. You were returning evil for evil rather than doing what I asked of My children, which is to forgive others and to return good for evil. You were amazed when I told you that I love him just as much as I love you, because I AM LOVE. Your aim began to be able to say, “I am Love, too.”
Think about a contest, any contest, a sporting contest, a spelling contest, an academics contest, a beauty contest, any contest. There is always a judge who declares someone the winner and someone the loser. So you see that in judging others there is always a winner and a loser in your mind. Instead of judging, try compassion and mercy and understanding. Then you will receive compassion and mercy and understanding in return from everyone when you miss the mark. Do like I do, look on the spirit and not the flesh.
Your grandson told you that everyone makes mistakes and you might be the one who makes the next mistake. Take heed and learn that lesson and do not judge so that you will not be judged by others. I’m trying to protect you from the enticements of the devil who wants you to judge so that you will eventually also be judged by others and he will be able to enjoy seeing you in emotional pain. I want you in emotional health, free from pain.
Love, God
Matthew 7:1 and 2, Matthew 26:41
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