?Judge not, that you be not judged.? Matthew 7:1

Much torment comes to people?s lives because of judgmental attitudes, criticism, and suspicion. Multitudes of relationships are destroyed by judgmental and critical thoughts and when they are turned into words, they can keep a person very isolated and lonely. Once again, the mind is the battlefield.

One definition of judgement is ?a decision passed on the faults of others.? God is the only One Who has the right to condemn or judge, therefore, when we pass judgement on another, we are, in a sense, setting ourselves up as God in his life.

Some personalities are more given to this fault than others. However, we must realize that each of us have our own way of seeing things. We like to tell people what we think, and that is exactly the point ? what I think may be right for me, but not necessarily right for you and vice versa.

This type of continual thinking can poison our thoughts ? and our lives. The root of this thinking may reveal a deeper problem ? pride. When the ?I? in us is bigger than it should be, it will always cause the kinds of problems we are discussing.
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