When someone upsets or disappoints you, God expects you to be gracious towards them instead of judgmental.<\/i> The Bible says, \u2018If someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.\u2019<\/i> (Galatians\u00a06:1\u00a0NIV) You say, \u2018Tempted how?\u2019 Tempted to become judgmental or \u2018holier than thou\u2019. That\u2019s the wrong response. <\/p>\n
\u2018Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarrelling.\u2019<\/i> Instead of criticising their faults<\/i>, you\u2019re supposed to help strengthen their faith.<\/i> You set yourself up for Satan\u2019s attack in your own areas of weakness the moment you begin to pass judgment on someone else. <\/p>\n
What\u2019s your reaction to people when they mess up their lives? Do you say, \u2018I told you so,\u2019 or \u2018I could see it coming,\u2019 or \u2018It serves you right,\u2019 or \u2018How could you be such a fool?\u2019 Jesus didn\u2019t do that! His reaction to the woman caught committing adultery was full of compassion and sensitivity. He defended her publicly, then restored her privately. He was gracious, not judgmental. Why should you work at not being judgmental? Because that is the way Christ treated you. <\/p>\n
\u2018Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.\u2019<\/i> (Romans\u00a015:7\u00a0NIV) God puts up with a lot from you, right? And if He puts up with your inconsistencies and weaknesses, you can learn to put up with other people\u2019s shortcomings. Whenever you\u2019re tempted to judge another person, pause and remember how much God has forgiven you. The more you recognise God\u2019s grace to you, the more gracious you will be to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When someone upsets or disappoints you, God expects you to be gracious towards them instead of judgmental. The Bible says, \u2018If someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.\u2019 (Galatians\u00a06:1\u00a0NIV) You say, \u2018Tempted how?\u2019 Tempted to become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}