Don’t judge

To realize that we are all sinners before God, and God tells us all, “Neither I do not condemn you “1 What does the term judicial error tell you? Yes, it’s condemning an innocent person to the death penalty based on a misjudgment. Even today, we could witness a miscarriage of justice. In reading from the book of the prophet, Daniela is an innocent Suzana sentenced to death. She is falsely accused of adultery. And the gospel also tells us about a woman. But this one is unlike Suzana was caught directly in adultery.
Two women. Two charges. Two identical sins are based on which they are accused. Suzana unjustly (she did not commit adultery cf. Dan 13:43), a woman from the Gospel justly (she was directly caught in adultery – cf. John 8: 4). But neither one of them was not stoned. What saved them? Love. Suzana saved her love for Joachim’s husband and God for his law. He says: “It will be better for me, if I do not do this and fall into your hands, how to sin before the Lord ”(Dan 13.23). And what saved a sinful woman from the gospel? The love of Christ. The love of Christ is manifested in mercy. “Did no man condemn you?” Jesus asks the woman. “Neither do you I do not condemn. Go and sin no more ”(John 8: 10-11).

In the case of Suzana, we observe man’s love for God, for his commands, and in the case of an adulterous woman from the gospel, the love of God for man. Man’s love leads to God to righteousness, to keep His commandments, to the righteous way of life, and God’s love for man leads to mercy. If Jesus looked at a man by the eyes of man and not by the eyes of God, he would allow the scribes to stone a woman. Perhaps we will talk with the scribes that Jesus did not keep the law. That he acted against justice and acted against the law, imagine that they are standing in front of us now righteous Suzana and a sinner from the gospel. The judge comes and says, “Do it a fair trial. ” It is clear how this will turn out. But which of us is without sin (cf. John 8.7)? God gives a chance. “Go and sin no more” (John 8:11).

I do not mean that we should now forgive all criminals who deserved
punishment. But I want to point out that the sinner, the criminal, and especially he receives again an opportunity to start. I assume we are not criminals or criminals in the right words, but I dare say that we are all sinners. And Jesus to all of us says, “I do not condemn you either: go and sin no more” (John 8: 10-11). Right in this, at the time of repentance, we have to realize this great chance. When did Christ not condemn us? How can we condemn ourselves? Let’s not condemn each other, a neighbor’s neighbor, a colleague at work. Let us not also condemn those whom others despise, whom others condemn.
Let us try to look at our neighbor with the eyes of God, the eyes of the love that stands above by law. If we look at it through a person’s eyes, it can easily happen that we make a miscarriage of justice to condemn unjustly. “Which one of you is without sin” (John 8: 7)? Jesus asks us. Let’s give him and ourselves the answer to this.