Who are we to say?

One thing I have been dealing with recently is judgement. On the one hand, judging believers and non-believers and holding them to my standard, and on the other hand judging God and the way he gives his gifts. Lets tackle one topic at a time.

First off judging people.

I have been reading in Romans over the last few weeks. I finally got into chapter two. There are times in the scripture when I read something and I know that God is real, because the scripture is directly speaking to me. As if it was written only for me in that moment. Romans 2:1-3 says,

Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

²And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things.

³But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?

The gist of this passage is that God is the only who can judge. Not only that but those who judge condem themselves. One could rephrase it to say, The ability to condem rightly fall on the supreme diety and he condems according to the truth. So if by judging we in turn condem our selves, we have been condemmed by the truth of the supreme deity, which is Jehovah Jirah, God our Father. This has been a major conviction because I sometimes have an inaccurate view of myself, as if I had something to offer on my own. When I am brought back to the fact that I am a worthless puke without the saving grace of Jesus Christ then I realize it is not my place to judge or place my standard on anyone. God, the only true and righteous judge will render his judgement in due time.

Secondly, I have been judging God on the basis in which he gives his gifts. I want to know why God gives me gifts, and not to others, and vice versa. Why does God give me wisdom and discernment in some situations and not to the people making the decisions. Why do people come to me to tell me their problems? Why do people want my opinion on things? Why do I have to live with lots of information about people I don't want to know? Why?

Well, the simple answer is to bring glory to himself. And the other realization that I have come to is that I should be grateful that God has given me anything, because I deserve nothing. I should have the attitude of Job, after everything he had was destroyed he had this response,

At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship ²¹ and said:

"Naked I came from my mother's womb,

and naked I will depart.

The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away;

may the name of the LORD be praised."

<> ²² In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.

How dare we question God's good and perfect will in giving of his perfect gifts. We have only been given things to turn them back to praise. For as Job said, we brought nothing into this world and we will leave with nothing, may the name of the Lord be praised. This is why God gives us faith to believe, so that we might praise the Lord.

Anyways, there's a look into me life.

I'm outta here

P.S. School is over for the time being.