Hand Over the Gavel Please!

This blog comes from a place of anger. Anger over the words judgement, judged, judging, judge and jury. Ok now one would ask why would should I be angry over those words? Well let's see now I have had judgement brought on me, have been judged and all by those that felt they were judge and jury. Now who would have possibly done this? I believe they call themselves and I am a little embarrassed to say this.....Christians. Why would I feel embarrassed about saying that? The answer to that is because I call myself a Christian. My question to all my fellow Christians out there is "What gives us the right to think we are someones judge and jury?"



Now if I were someone else reading this, I would ask "What brought this on?" Well without going into alot of detail it has to do with something that happened to me about five and a half years ago. I went through a divorce. Now after this divorce there were people that call themselves Christians that would have nothing to do with me and to this day some still will not. I was and to this day am judged. Now let's see there is a book that we Christians read. I believe it is called the Bible. There was a person that is written about in this book. His name was Jesus Christ and I believe He was and is very important to the Christian faith. This being said let me share some of his words : "Stop judging others, and you will not be judged. For others will treat you as you treat them. Whatever measure you use in judging others it will be used to measure how you are judged. And why worry about a speck in your friend's eye when you have a log in your own? How can you think of saying, 'Friend, let me help you get rid of that speck in your own eye', when you can't see past the log in your own eye? Hypocrite! First get rid of the log from your own eye then perhaps you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend's eye." New Living Translation

Now I have been thinking about this judgement thing quite a bit over the last five and a half years and as most things that bug me, the longer I have had to think about them the angrier I tend to get about them. Now I am not just angry at those who have judged me, but I am also mad at myself for allowing myself at times to do the same thing to others. My prayer is "Heavenly Father please forgive your children for playing judge and jury and not handing over gavel and robe to you".

Donna one and one says: Be careful, all your judgements will come back and bite you in the butt!