Why do we feel the need to always give our opinion or give our take on a situation or a person?  (I know its ironic that I am asking this questions on a blog.)  But today I read a Facebook post that someone made a judgement about a different religion.  As far as I know the person that made the judgement did not know the people they made the judgements about.  It got me thinking why do we feel the need to make judgements about others just because of our differences.  Too often we use our differences to make judgements to put a divider between us and the person we make judgements about.

When Jesus was asked about the greatest commandments, this is how he answered this question.  “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”  And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.  And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22:36-40  Jesus did not say that you don’t need to love the person that believes different than you.  Or you don’t need to love the person that looks different than you.  Or you don’t need to love the person who has hurt you and does not deserve your love.  Or you don’t need to love the person the homeless person that crosses your path.  Or you don’t need to love the person who decides to love differently than you.  There were no exceptions in this commandment.  God made every person on this earth different.  We are called to love others.  Too often we find a reason to not show God’s love to others.  We should take time to get to know someone who we may want to pass a judgement on.  If we did this we would find the person is not as different as we think.  And most likely we would find this person is amazing and they can add a great value to our life.

Another thing to remember is that our words have impact.  Too often we say words without thinking about the impact they have.  Too often the words we say carelessly have an impact for a lifetime.  It is up to us if we want our words to impact positively or negatively.

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