Monday, September 22, 2014

The Great Identity Stealer

Judgement – more than anything else – steals our true God-given identity, who he created us to be. Because we become what we judge.

Romans 2:1 says, “You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgement on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.” Did you catch that? To say it another way, “You do the same thing you judge the other person for doing.” So when we judge, we will start doing that thing we judged. God's word cannot be broken.

God didn't create us to be what we're judging. That's not our true identity at all. Nowhere in the Bible is judging on the list of spiritual gifts. No one has the gift of judgment or criticism. So judging is the great identity stealer – it turns us into something we were never meant to be.

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