Tuesday, February 1, 2022

But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?

 James 4:11-5:6

But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?

Why you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.

Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.

Don't criticize and judge others: judgment is God's business. Don't assume you have total control of your life; there is in God's hands too.

There is a special danger in wealth. It wraps people up in false security. They are so well-insulated that they cease to feel for those who are cold and hungry. This life is so pleasant that they forget the day of reckoning. But God sees and hears all.

Why?

We have no right to judge others, it is the right of the Lord.

Our life, our way is in hands of the Lord, we can plan our goal, but God leads us the way in our life. So do not boast what I have don't, but because of the mercy of the Lord, so we may be blessing and living.

To be a rich man is not a fault, but we should treat others fairly and with mercy and love, they are working for us so we should pay them back for their efforts.

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人想做審判官,定善惡。

論斷弟兄就是不認同律法、批評律法,無論口中無論如何說遵行律法。不是不分別是非,而是先除掉我們眼中的樑木,認清我也有過失,我也沒有多好,存謙卑的心、愛心來看別人。

自以為可以掌握一切的人:許多事情卻是我們無法掌握。我們可以規劃,但是我們生命必須符合神的心意!

指出為富不仁的人的不是。財務多到一個程度,享受不到,長銹、被蟲咬,最後在審判的時候等待被宰殺。義人不反抗這些人的逼迫,似乎他們得意,審判已經臨到!

保守我們沾染配合,心裏柔和謙卑!

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How?

Be humble, no matter what I am doing, good or bad result, it is in hands of the Lord, what I can say is submit to the Lord, for God is my shepher.




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