Judging
So often we are tempted to judge others that we meet
While sitting in the squaller of our own prideful deceit
Assuming by our standard we're the ones who have arrived
When only by the grace of God have we also survived
It seems we have this habit to pretend we are so grand
And others should be living by the works that we demand
When of a truth those works will gain us not a single thing
When Christ returns in glory with eternal life He brings
And really if we saw ourselves the way that God can see
We'd wonder why it is at all He gives us His mercy
And how He even loves us for the things that we have done
Those things the Bible tells us crucified His precious Son
For if not for the selfish acts God sees in me and you
Those self-deceiving little things that selfish people do
Christ would not have laid all aside to be as one of us
Would not have had to be the Lamb in Whom we now must trust
To cleanse us of our evil thoughts and habits of this earth
To give to us the blessed hope that comes with our new birth
When at the cross we lay all down before His precious feet
Those words and thoughts and actions that have led to our defeat
Not because we have asked Him to for long before we knew
God chose to take away our sin as only He could do
But ours was to be willing to let Him be all we need
By letting go of everything to let His love succeed
And take from us what we deserved to give us in exchange
A life that's pure and holy as He lives in us His change
From once a long lost sinner to a child of purity
Inheriting a throne with God throughout eternity
So if today you're tempted to judge one you chance to meet
Remember but for grace you might be sitting in their seat
Or standing by a roadside wishing for someone to care
And offer you some blessing God might move on you to share
Or maybe you'd be ready to undo what God has done
To take away the image that He made through Christ the Son
When if someone would listen taking time to be your friend
You'd welcome Christ's salvation with that life that never ends
Romans 14:7-14; James 4:1-17
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