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To judge something as + or - maybe as 👍🏻 or 👎🏻 is to enter into the world of dualities, and this creates social, political, psychological, or even spiritual, tension...
Matthew 7:
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.
“Do not judge"…verse one. The parables of Jesus make up a crucial part of the Bible. Jesus had the wisdom to simplify profound spiritual truths he needed to share with humanity. Relatable stories that are easy to understand, but often required the hearer to do some soul-searching. What might it have been like to hear Jesus speak in this way? Foreign? Provocative? Questioning: He's causing me to think about what I’m thinking about. I like it! I don’t like it!! I …………….