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Prayer from Colossians 4:12: "...that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God" ("...stand firm and mature [in spiritual growth], convinced and fully assured in everything willed by God, Amp).

Beth Moore, Living Beyond Yourself: "...the essence of the Biblical word for 'patience' is the delaying of judgment." I cannot both judge others and be patient toward them (122-123.

Six Reasons We Must Not Judge Others

(Romans 2:1-5)
1. When I judge others, I invite the discipline of my Heavenly Father.
2. Judgment bears [births] hypocrisy; much of what I condemn in others, I myself have done.
3. I do not know the whole truth.
4. I am a mere human. I cannot assume God's job.
5. When I judge others, I am judging God. "'Time is not nearly as important to God as timing.'" Dr. Adrian Rogers as quoted in Beth Moore.
6. God's judgment is always righteous. Mine is always tainted by the flesh.

Matt. 7:1-5
7. I risk application of the same type of judgment to me.
8. I have a plank (telephone pole) in my eye. My sight is hindered by my own sin.

James 4:11-12
9. God alone is lawgiver and judge.
10. Only God has noble purpose in His judgment. I judge to make myself feel righteous in comparison.

John 8:14-18
11. My judgment would have to be completely consistent with God's. I possess little heavenly perspective (123-125).

I pass judgment more frequently than I restore.

Father, grant me an extremem awareness of judgment--an immediate sense of conviction over the sin of judgment and my tendency to condemn.