DEVOTIONAL :BE AND ENCOURAGER AND NOT TO JUDGE OTHERS

Be an encourager to help others struggles

READ John 8:1-11 below....

Jesus Christ came to the world to save all of us from our sins and transgressions and not to judge or condemn us if we believe in him (John: 3:17-18) . All of us had fall short on his glory for all of us have sinned (Romans 3:23) . God hates the sin but he loves the sinner and he forgives our sins. God loves us unconditionally and he doesn't want one of us to be perished(John 3:16). He demonstrated his love for us by giving up his life for us (Romans 5:8) , the great love of God for us through Christ. As we started to know Jesus Christ and saved by grace, we will face such situation, like sometimes our family and friends will be use by the enemy to attack us personally questioning our faith, judging and condemning us using our past mistakes.

Nowadays even people claiming they are Christians, when you do good things it will be get easily forgotten  but when you do mistakes it will be saved on their minds and memories. Always they will use it to let you down, put you into shame, throwing it all over again and again to you like a stone.  That even you are not on that same place or situation they still keep throwing it to you. 

Like the story in this passage, this woman whom they said that they caught her in a sinful act of  adultery was treated like the most sinner. How they handled her over to Jesus Christ was super shaming in the middle of the crowd without love and compassion using it as a trap to Jesus Christ. As if they are clean and righteous for they are  teachers of the law and Pharisees, so they were acting that they knew everything rather than Jesus.  They tried to  judge her by stoning to death. But Jesus Christ deal with it with love and compassion and ask them for who among them without sin be the first to throw a stone to the woman. But look no one throws a stone to her for the truth is revealed that all of them not only the woman is a  sinner.

This also teaches us to not judge our brothers or sisters whom we see them in sin, but remind them with the love of God. Be kind, compassionate and help them by encouraging using the knowledge and wisdom from God with repentance(Ephesians 4:32). And not lean on your own understanding, but always remember that we are all sinners, we have to be very careful on dealing with the same situation for we might be use by the evil to be a stumbling block rather than to help them being restored back to Christ. We don't have the right to judge others for the real judge is only  Jesus Christ, who gives us so many chances to change without judging us immediately. But by giving us a chance and allowing as to listen and obey  his word. That  will really help us back to him with full and complete restoration in his name. Motivate yourself by reading the word of God. When you feel you are judge because of what you have done, be humble in the Lord ask forgiveness and forgive. God's word is a lamp to our feet and light of our path and it is useful for our restoration(Psalm 119:105; 2 Timothy 3:16-17).

Do not listen to those who only see your mistakes, letting you feel that you are a sinner and they are righteous, but listen to those people with a Spirit of love and with compassionate heart like Jesus Christ who guides and uplift your soul up. And most of all listen to what Jesus Christ said , neither do I condemn you, Go now and leave your life of sin. We have to delight ourselves to God for apart from him we are totally nothing.

 WHEN YOU ARE JUDGED OF WHO YOU ARE OR OF WHAT YOU HAVE DONE BE HUMBLE AND REMEMBER THAT…

ACROSTIC- JUDGE

J-  JESUS CHRIST WAS JUDGED FIRST BY THE WORLD EVEN HE IS SINLESS. (JOHN 15:18)

U- UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE ALL SINNERS ONLY SAVED BY GOD’S GRACE THROUGH CHRIST BY FAITH. (Ephesians 2:8)

D- DON’T DO UNTO THEM OF WHAT THEY DID, BUT SUBMIT TO GOD AND  HAVE A COMPASSIONATE HEART LIKE JESUS TO FORGIVE. (Ephesians 4:32)

G- GOD IS THE ONLY ONE WHO WILL JUDGE US ONE DAY. WHILE STILL HAVE A CHANCE TO REPENT ACCEPT THE TRUTH AND LIVE A LIFE AWAY FROM SIN. (2 Corinthians 5:10)

E- ENDURE EVERY JUDGEMENT WITH PRAYER, A HUMBLE HEART AND WALK LIKE JESUS CHRIST. (Proverbs 3:6)

John 8:1-11

1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

11 “No one, sir,” she said.

“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”