Judgmental thoughts are sneaky, just like the devil who is the source of them. They will creep into your mind so quickly that you don't recognize that they are there. Sometimes you entertain them until they become attitudes. If they remain in your mind as attitudes for very long, they become actions in the form of damaging words spoken which are critical, filled with disgust, condemning, strife-filled, and divisive. Then your unity with the person or people to whom you are speaking to or about is severed.
What you fail to recognize is that at the core of all judgment is the most perverse of all attitudes, which is self righteousness. You have read what Jesus said to the ministers who were self righteous. Watch out for judgmental speaking from religious men and from politicians who are the ones about whom Jesus spoke. If you join into it, you join the team of unrighteousness and are in danger of losing your peace, your love and your mercy. You have joined the wrong team.
The idea that you are superior in some way and that you have the right to deem others as inferior to you in order to deserve your criticism is at basis of self righteousness. That attitude of pride and superiority is what got satan thrown out of My heaven. When you fall into judgmental thoughts you are buying into his own elevated ideas of being above others rather than being equal to them. The motive of evil spirits is to put judgmental thoughts into your mind, believing that if they can temp you to judge, criticize and condemn others then they will accomplish what they desired, which is to separate you from Me. I never leave you or forsake you, but when you join with the destructive spirits you separate yourself from the benefits of My family. Temporarily sacrificing your inheritance is not worth it.
Love, God
Matthew 7:1-2; Luke 6:37-38; Luke 12:37-39; John 7:24; John 12:47-48; Romans 14:13-14.
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