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By What Right Do I Judge Others?
Do I see the speck in another's eye but not the beam in my own?
Judge not, that you be not judged.
Jesus said not to judge others carelessly. A person sees so well the small speck in another's eye yet misses the beam in their own. By the measure I judge, I am measured in return. So first remove the beam from your own eye — this forbids not judgment itself, but the arrogance of condemning without self-examination. The question meets many traditions. Confucius said "the noble person seeks it in himself, the small person in others"; the Stoics urged understanding over condemnation, since another's fault springs from ignorance. But the question of justice asks back — if no one judges, who tells right from wrong? Is it to stop judging, or to judge myself first?
In an age quick to put anyone on trial in an instant, the call to turn my measure first on myself grows more urgent.
📝I, Too, Stand Before It
I am startlingly quick to judge others — that one is lazy, selfish, thoughtless; in an instant the scale tips. Yet as Jesus says, I have almost never turned on myself the sharp measure I press on others. Another's speck is magnified, my beam unseen. This surely does not mean never to judge. It means, before raising the finger of condemnation, to turn that finger first on myself. Today, the moment I move to judge someone, I will first ask: could I bear this measure?
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