Righteous judgment: Am not B.O.B. (Brain of Britain) you know!!!

Gal 5
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

I recall asking someone who seemed to know all things certainly much more than I did, about that verse "judge not lest ye be judged" I wasn't a Christian then, but disliked the thought of having to pointy fingers at everyone else..and somehow figured that was what it meant that it was not for us to judge. And the person said the verse was over quoted and used as an ensigna not to judge far too frequently and taken out of all context. And not being B.O.B. (brain of Britain) I believed them. And way down the line I still believed that somehow we are supposed to judge everyone. Still as an unbeliever. And in circumstances I don't wish to go into, but almost two years ago, I found the fingers of Deejay is damned pointing my way by the very person who had said the judge not lest ye be judged verse was taken way out of context. And whether they were right or wrong about me at the time is besides the point, I could understand there being upset but also, was too pig ignorant about Godly things to see further than feeling condemned and abandoned through this judgment. But I also saw the same aspersions cast about someone else, in fact multiple folks, and knew this was not right. I may not be B.O.B. but ain't stoopid you know!!! And really some of these folks had more right to judge me for whatever reason than the first person did, and yet they didn't. And slowly though I often feel so stoopid through my cognitive abilities rapidly deteriorating in many unseen or probably unnoticeable to others ways, I think I was awed by knowledge and brain power or so it seemed as I am quite easily impressed.. And yet over the last while, God has removed the scales from my eyes, and it took me looking death in the face day after day, week after week, to want to know Him and at a time when my brain-power is at an all time low. Yet its not brains that open the Scriptures to anyone. I can read for hours upon a day, Scripture and other things too, and not remember any of it in less than an hour. Not consciously anyway. Yet when God comes near, He reveals Himself in all His Glory, wonder and power. And when the normal means of getting to know and to understand God through meditating and having things fixed in your memory is not the norm as it is for most people, then God will use supernatural means.

Luke 13 For nothing is impossible with God.

And it has seemed to me, that to point a finger at anyone and call them ready for damnation is against everything that Jesus teaches in the Bible. He spoke harsh words to the Pharisees by calling them a brood of vipers, but, not like the sin I mention above when just anyone who don't fit into your view you can toss them out of the Kingdom. (not God mind you...but us mere mortals) And have seen repeatedly, by people I have since learned have a much higher esteem for obeying God and His word than those who point the fingers at everyone else and call them fit for damnation, and learned for myself from Scripture that this is totally wrong. There may be time for righteous judgments, but that doesn't mean ANYONE has the right to usurp the place of God. No one. And yes, brain power can still intimidate me at times, one thing distinctly that does so, is my seeming lack of it. And yet, as Martin Luther wrote in his letters to Erasmus who was a very learned and scholarly man compared to Luther, he just about covers it in the below. (From Bondage of the Will)

"I am inferior in learning, ability, numbers, authority and everything else. Even you think so! As far as I you from your letters and books, you would stand revealed s such an ignorant simpleton that you could no, or to have pt utter a single syllable of explanation. Or suppose I should press the question, which of all those of whom you can boast can you prove for certain to be, or to have been, a saint or to have possessed the Sprit, or to have wrought miracles? I think you would sweat freely over you answer, and fruitlessly too! You say many things that are commonly accepted and publicly repeated in sermons; but you would not believe how much their credibility and authority they lose when brought to the judgment of conscience. "Many are accounted saints on earth, whose souls are in hell."

"Why do you not rather marvel at this Erasmus: Since the world began, there have always been superior talents, greater learning, and a more intense earnestness among pagans than among Christians and the people of God. It is as Christ Himself acknowledges: "the sons of this world are wiser than the sons of light" (Luke 16:8) What Christian can be compared with Cicero alone (to say nothing of the Greeks) for ability, learning and hard work? What then shall we say hindered them from finding grace? Who dare say that not one among them pursued truth with all his heart? Yet we are bound to maintain that not one of them reached it.

"The Saints are pearls and precious jewels, which the Spirit does not cast before swine; but (as Scripture puts it) He keeps them hid that the wicked may not see glory of God! Else, if they were open to the recognition of all, how could they be so vexed and afflicted in the world as they are? So Paul says: "Had they known him, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory," (1 Cor 2:8)

"Charity always thinks the best of everyone, and is not suspicious, but believes and assumes all good of its neighbor, calls every baptized person a saint. There is no danger involved if she is wrong; it is the way of charity to be deceived, for she is open to all the uses and abuses of every man, as being a handmaid of all, good and b ad, believing and unbelieving, true and false. Though we should all look on each other as saints as a matter of charity, none should be declared a saint as a matter of faith. "

Ps. 119:130 The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.

"Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons."
Will Cuppy

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