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Mercy Always Wins Over Judgment

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The problem with making a judgment on another is not what it does or how it affects that person. It does not in real life affect them. The judgment however affect the judge on a personal level.

A wrong judgment can bring on a spiraling state of discontent, fear, anger and any slew of other heinous, uncomfortable states.

Since none know the extent of another person’s life, it is difficult to judge them with honest balance. When that happens it opens the door for more conclusions than facts, more judgments than mercy and more mistakes dishonoring the judge.

To make matters worse, the judge will share that point of view with others. Here the situation gets even murkier, uglier and sometimes irreparable.

Judgment should be minimal or not at all but never ever shared. Someone’s reputation may be at stake.

The Good Samaritan Did

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Good-Samaritan.jpgThis is God’s way of teaching each of us humility and acceptance with joy. There are those times when we will be The Good Samaritan but those are the easy times. When we are on the receiving end, our true natures are uncovered. Woe to him who has his soul uncovered and does nothing; for hardness of heart will set in and God will not speak of that again.

The Good Samaritan tells of a man from Samaria, who found a wounded Jew on the side of the road and stopped to help.

Why the need to tell of the others who passed by before the Samaritan? Why was it so vital to the story to mention those others who fell short of grace!

Because they were the ones who should have stopped by all accounts. The one was of his ilk so to speak, the other was a teacher and a holy man.

The most unlikely was the Samaritan who could have just as easily ignored the assaulted man. In truth if the reverse were the case, the Jew would not have even given him a second glance since they thought so little of Samaritans.

God sometimes puts us in situations where we do not have everything, where we need others, even people we would normally not appreciate or regard.

Result Oriented Appleseed Was Not

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Apple-Tree.jpgDoes it matter whether you can see the results of your handiwork or not? If the story of Johnny Appleseed is to be believed and let’s just say we do, then everything he did, he walked away from, knowing full well that he would not see the results of his toil.

It takes strength of resolve and a determined heart to do things without seeing first hand the product of what we have worked so hard to accomplish. [Read more…] about Result Oriented Appleseed Was Not

Recognizing God In Your Daily Walk

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Be-still.jpgBe Still and Know that I am God Psalm 46:10
My Utmost For His Highest
In the face of obscurity, in the face of ridicule, in the face of failure hanging onto the word of God will always bring about the victorious life.

My biggest fear was never that God would not come through for me, no He had always done that. Experience had shown that God was capable of doing the thing He had promised. My biggest fear was the humiliation of failing and causing others to see that this failure was not only me but Jesus Himself. [Read more…] about Recognizing God In Your Daily Walk