You can learn a lot about someone's life by learning about their past. But the one thing I think everyone should come to understand at some point in their life is that you cannot judge a person by their past. By Christ's judgement alone will our hearts be judged. For man, it is our task to forgive, and as we have all heard... to forgive is to forget. You cannot learn about their present self, by learning about their past. Sometimes learning about someone's history is critical in understanding their perspective in life. But it still doesn't tell you anything about them in this very moment. Because everyone grows from experiences differently. Give me two people with the same history and they will still be very different people because they will have chosen to react to that history in a different way.
Everyone has the choice of deciding how they will react to every trial and blessing in their life. We also have the choice of whether or not we decide to grow from those experiences or allow them to push us back.
But it's a choice.
Always a choice.
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I felt this might have been in part directed toward me. I judge and re-evaluate every hour of the day. "Judged by God" is what my name means, so it is a topic of great personal interest.
I am careful to not condemn, which is the proper interpretation of Matthew 7:1, "Condemn not lest ye be condemned, but judge righteous judgment". I frequrntly refer to bullet 3 on a list
I first saw May 2005. I hope this makes good food for thought - http://josephsoninstitute.org/business/blog/2010/12/the-dirty-dozen-twelve-common-rationalizations-and-excuses-to-avoid/
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