Often I catch myself wondering what is in the minds of
people. Thirty-three years of law enforcement most assuredly jades an
individual, but I cannot wrap my head around the hate, vile and outright filth
people will say and write. I try and understand why people will latch onto an
event that occurred some 20+ years ago and speak as if the event took place
last week. What possess people to degrade a person, again using an event that
took place over 20+ years ago?
I’m not a religious person by any stretch. I am not a bible
thumper or born again anything. I grew up in a Catholic home, going to
parochial school from first grade through high school. I served as an altar boy
and participated in all the church offered. My wife and I were married in the
church and have been together in marriage for almost 37 years (together over 40
in total). Our children were baptized into the church and were given a
foundation of faith each have carried into their adult lives. I am no angel and
surly not without fault or sin. The closest I come to being a choirboy, is
Joseph Wambaugh’s description of one in his books of the same title. After this
admission, I guess I should brace for the onslaught of hate. Those days long
gone and mostly forgotten, at least by those of us who lived them and understand
them.
In Romans 2:1-2; God’s
Righteous Judgment, the bible talks about those who judge others.
Therefore, you have no excuse or defense or
justification, whoever you are who judges and condemns another. For, in posing
as judge and passing sentence on another, you condemn yourself, because you
who judge are habitually practicing the very same things that you censure and
denounce.
So, when you, a mere man (or woman), pass judgment on them and you do
the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?
I look at those who most often and with the loudest of
voices cast their judgments and I believe this to be so very true.
In John 8; Jesus states,
“If any one of you is without
sin, let him cast the first stone.”
I continue to struggle with, “why”. Why have a small group
of disgruntled and angry people, filled with hate, chosen to latch onto an
event that bears no significance today, 20+ years later. As I search for
meaning and reason, I look at the bible and Matthew 7, where the bible talks again about
judging others.
In the same way you judge others, you will be judged. If you judge with
an evil heart or dark intent, His judgment of you will reflect it. If you use
extremes, exaggerations or other ignoble means, His judgment of you will
reflect that also.
Do not accuse others unless you first thoroughly search your own heart
and mind to make certain you are pure in every possible way.
Remember, Jesus was the only sinless person.
I am at a loss to understand the righteous indignation of
those who continue their assaults.
In John 8, Jesus said to the sinner, “Neither do I condemn thee; go,
sin no more”.
The only person to inhabit this earth without sin, refused
to condemn another. Yet, many have found it their right; their obligation;
their duty; their privilege; their calling, to judge another. The ignoble means
of those who self righteously judge and condemn, is pathetic.
