Snap Judgments

How do you make your decisions about others? Most of us make some kind of judgment about people when we first meet them, sometimes good, sometimes bad. Have you ever thought your judgment might be predicated on how good a day they were having.

When you or I see them in a bad state, we wouldn’t know how hard they struggled against their hard-to-control temper or a terrible addiction. We wouldn’t know how much self-hatred they suffered knowing they had been forgiven by God but had slipped up anyway.

We are all one in what we call this human race. All of us slip up sometimes. Let’s leave the snap judgments behind. Let’s give others the grace, compassion and mercy we all want for ourselves.