Judging others

Few things are as malign in human language as judgment. After all, there are people who leave no one in peace and no one is sure of their language. No one could beat the tears that this bad habit forced. The wise Mirach says, “A whip blow causes sink; a tongue blow breaks up to the bones.

Justice and love demand that one should not be “far-sighted” and see only the mistakes of others. When Jesus spoke of judgment in his speech at the top, Jesus added the following parable: “Why do you see garbage in your brother’s eye, and you cannot see a cross in your eye? Or how can you tell your brother: You have a cross in your eye! Hypocrite, throw the cross out of your eye first! Jesus does not prohibit judgment in and of itself; this would lead to clutter and irresponsibility if there were no criticism of parents and educators, various leaders and true friends. On the contrary, he expressly calls for fraternal admonition (Mt 18: 15). In this parable, however, he speaks of having the right degree of criticism and strictness to each other before we have the right view of others. And if we find all the beams that we have to remove, we will not have much time to criticize others.

These words of Christ apply to all of us. We rarely find a man who would not like to sweep in front of a foreign court. We are mostly blind when it comes to our mistakes and bars would be how big we don’t see them. It’s easy to judge others, but it’s hard to judge yourself. Wherever two or three meet, they start to talk about the fourth, who is absent and cannot defend. The writer Arnold Browne mentions this fable of Aesop: A man carries a sack on his shoulders. In his back he has his guilt – which he does not see, in front of the misdemeanors of others he still has in his eyes.

For this reason, a person is more inclined to sweep in front of a foreign house than in his own, even though there will be quite a lot more of the trash in front of his house. The film Martial Life was shot. The spouses stand before the court in divorce proceedings. In the first part of the film, the husband’s testimony is captured. Everything he says is also reflected. The viewer watching it is on the husband’s side. He is convinced that his wife has committed evil. In the second part, the wife talks about the causes of the marital misunderstanding. And here the viewer is convinced that it was not all as the husband said that in many ways the wife is right. And the conclusion? Both are guilty, but neither of them wants to realize it.

This is often the cause of all the inconvenience and misunderstanding among people. We judge others, but we are no better ourselves. We would rather condemn hundreds more than we would admit: my guilt. People do not need judges but brothers. The world, on the other hand, has many judges because it has few brothers. Therefore, the more cautious are the words of Christ: “Hypocrites, first throw the beam out of your eye! Then you will see and be able to remove the rejection from your brother’s eye” (Mt 7: 5). Holy. The Apostle Paul instructs: “So, man, you have no excuse when you judge, whoever you are. For in what you judge others, you condemn yourself.

The strongest reason for kindly criticism is the awareness of responsibility before God. This is what Jesus said: “As you judge, so will you” (Mt 7: 2). Especially we see this in the words that St. Luke: “Give and give to you: good, pressed, shaken, high, they shall give to the womb. For what measure ye shall measure, so shall ye also measure” (Luke 6:38). We therefore have in our hands the goodness or severity of God’s judgment over us.

In one monastery a religious brother died. He was very funny, cheerful and funny. Even at the last moment, he was chastising the religious brothers standing around his deathbed. The superiors did not like it and rebuked him. The dying was not offended, but he said, “I am aware that I will say goodbye to you in a few minutes. This does not prevent me from being cheerful.” “How’s it?” Asks the superior. And the monk continued, “I am not afraid of death because I will not be judged …” “Why, perhaps you are an exception?” The monk nodded and added, “Yes because Jesus Christ promised that no one will judge anybody, he will not be judged. Therefore, I believe that if I have not judged anyone in my life and judged I will not be judged. Well why should I fear death? Even cheerful. ” May God have made us so happy when we part with this world!