Daily Scripture Threshing for Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Today’s Text: Matthew 7:1-6
Key Verses: Matthew 7:1 (ESV): “Judge not, that you be not judged.”
While our culture uses Matthew 7:1 indiscriminate ways: some to promote a unscriptural tolerance or simply to encourage acceptance of behaviors that the word of God forbids. God’s children know that those are not our Lord’s intention for those words, and we must not crop them as if they are from that neighbor, school teacher, philosopher or friend. And yes, though they have literally become a part of our secular culture, and are being treated as generic platitudes, but they do not originate from secular thoughts. Remember the same text cautions us not to give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
The words, “judge not, that you be not judged” are from Jesus’s spiritual teachings and warning to his own men. You cannot understand and interpret spiritually discernible things in simplified, anachronistic ways. This timeless maxim is not an antithesis to a man trying to correct someone who is doing something wrong or foolish. Someone is corrupting the creative nature and believing a lie about God’s plan for man and woman or sexuality; and those who correct him or her are held back from a secularized gloss of this biblical imperative. We must know that it is the Spirit of God that gives life to God’s word and to us; for the flesh counts for nothing. The words that our Lord speaks to us are of the Spirit and they are life (John 6:63). Do not miss tomorrow’s meditation on what this important spiritual caution is all about.
Quote for the Day: “The words “judge not” is Christ’s command to remind believers none of us should ever play God. For it is to Him alone that the meting of judgement and punishment belong.” (Simon Olatunji)
Prayer: Dear Lord, I pray that you give me You wisdom so that while I must not focus on the faults or shortcomings of others; I am not swept into the secular spirit of permissiveness. Help me to see others through the eyes of grace, and not based on their outward appearance — in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
With all my love and prayers,
Rev Simon Wale Olatunji, Ph.D.
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