Matt 7:1-5
1 Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
I Cor 2:14-15
14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment:
I’ve been chewing on the difference between judgment and discernment. A few posts ago I discussed my natural bent toward judgment. (See it here).
Here’s what Dad gave me: “Judgment and Discernment are very close. It depends on who is doing it. If it’s 100% from God, it is discernment. If there is any of me in it, it is judgment.”
I Cor 2:16 “But we have the mind of Christ.”
It’s just a daily discipline, an hourly discipline, a moment by moment discipline of surrender and dying to self. Like KE posted yesterday, trusting Him with everything and getting out of the way. Easily said. More difficult to practice.