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Daily book quote;

    Notice that self-righteous judgment has a boomerang: "For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." In other words: “What goes around comes around.” If you start throwing out this critical spirit on other people, it’ll come back. We’ll receive the same kind of treatment that we dish out. If we judge others harshly and jump to the worst conclusions about others, we can be certain that we’ll be treated in the same way, I believe by both others and God. Does it make you mad when you find out that someone has made a judgment about you without knowing all the facts?

    We’re not qualified to sit in judgment on others because it’s impossible to be impartial -- we’re influenced by our own imperfections. Jesus here uses the graphic example of a plank of wood and a speck of dust. I think Jesus used the illustration of a plank and a speck because he was a carpenter; that was familiar to him and it was familiar to the people around him.
    Now, we are never to look down in self-righteous judgment on another sinner, for we have all fallen short of the glory of God, but we can recognize sin as sin, and we should never try to justify it.
    We need to be careful not to become harshly judgmental, looking for faults, taking the opportunity to look down on others from a position of self-righteousness, but neither are we to overlook sin. We need to be able to recognize sin for what it is. Any attempt to overlook or justify sin on any grounds is itself sinful. We also need to be able to judge a person’s motive or position against the truth and standard of God’s Word. - (False teachers, etc.) There is a difference between exercising judgment and a judgmental attitude. One can be good, the other is destructive.