1 Therefore, every one of you who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things. (Romans 2:1 CSB)

It is so very easy to slip into the habit of judging others and not recognizing the hubris in ourselves for doing so. We like to count the warts in others lives without seeing how covered we are.

Scripture calls this out and goes one better explaining that we will be judged by the same measure we judge others. In fact I believe that judgement will be even worse for us. We often look for the flaws in others without looking at it in ourselves, pointing out the splinter in another’s eye while doing so around the plank in our own eye.

So much of this is just fallen human nature. We point to that which we wish to hold others accountable for but do not wish to be held accountable ourselves. We measure others by a more critical scale than ourselves. But when we flip that and begin to hold a critical eye to our own lives first we begin to actually see the good in others.

Judgement is not a thing that we want to get into the practice of passing. I think doing so puts our lives under God’s microscope and, typically, our warts are far more visible than we imagine.