Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Doing vs. Judging

[S] James 4:11 --
 11Do not speak against one another, brethren He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.

[O] Doing the law means obeying it without complaints or any preconceived ideas.  Even though both doing and judging are action verbs doing involves mobilizing my physical body while judging is really just a state of mind.  It is so easy to judge because it can all take place inside my head while putting what I learned into action is much more difficult to carry out because it must leave my mind's virtual world into the reality.  In fact, the beginning part of this passage implies that judging damages brotherly love by speaking against one another where as obeying the law by doing (without making a fuss about it) springs for the humility before God.

[A] Obedience of God's law must happen before my mind engages into any judgments of others.  But because I have to interact with others by nature of ministry, this is very difficult to "do."  I need to obey (put things into action) more than thinking (by making judgments).

[P] Dear Father, despite the trainings I've received to process things in my mind before putting into action, Your principles spoken through James seems more like put things into action according to Your law first without processing a whole lot.  I want to deposit more of your law into my heart so I may put more of these into action to be known as the "doer" of your law.  In Jesus' name.  Amen.

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