Judging or Nah

I hate the saying “church people are judgmental”. Truth is, ALL people are judgmental. Why? Because people, in church or out, are people. As people we judge other people. Simple as that. Should we? Of course not, but we do. We judge people ALL the time about EVERYTHING, simple or complicated. Why did she wear that with that? Why is he with her? Why is her makeup looking like that? She must think she cute. He think he’s better than everyone else. Why don’t they discipline their kids? Why they that, why they this, etc, etc, etc. So why is it that when it happens in the church, we are mad?!? Yes, we are supposed to be striving daily to be like Christ and in that, we should strive to not be judgmental. Until we all reach that point, we are going to fail and judge. However, we consistently give people outside church walls and doors permission to judge our lives. We don’t mind their judgments though. Is it because we silently place them beneath us due to their lack of church attendance? Do we excuse the judging of “sinners”? Honestly, those “sinners” are the ones we should be concerned about judging us. We should want them to see God in us and be drawn to Him through us. Truthfully, none of us are perfect. We can be quick to admit our own lack of perfection, but not the next “church person’s” lack. It could be all so simple, but we’ll rather make it hard (I’m a HUGE Lauryn Hill fan!!): Mind your own business!! If we all mind our own business and not the next person’s, we won’t have time to judge anyone else. Take 6 months to mind your business and the other 6 months to stay out of the next person’s business, then we wouldn’t have to worry about “church people” judging. Maybe then, people would be people who love people. And the world could be a better place. Happy Friday!!