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Many years ago, I found myself stopping at the mall that was in my local town. I can’t remember why I was there, nor the reason for my visit. It was early, and the mall had just opened.
Malls are great places for people to come and walk to get exercise, and those who do it regularly have come to be known as mall walkers. They usually come in during the morning time to avoid the larger crowds that seem to gather in the later parts of the day.
As I came around the corner at the center of the mall, I passed by a woman who was mall walking, coming towards me. She must have been nearly 500+ pounds, and she was wearing sweatpants and a top.
Immediately, my judgmental thoughts began to go off in my head. At the time, I was used to wearing some of the most popular brands of the day, and I liked to wear things that I thought were sharp-looking. It was important for me to look good in the eyes of others.
But for her, I wasn’t concerned to think that maybe she was there to go mall walking to try to lose some weight? The only thing that I could think about was how appalling it would be to wear sweats in the mall where she could be seen by so many people and especially in her condition and size. I guess I had been sheltered up to that point because she was the biggest person that I had ever seen, and I was embarrassed for her. “Why in the world would you ever wear something like that in the mall?” and I let all the mental judgements fly…
My Name badge doesn’t have the word JUDGE written on it… That title belongs to Jesus, not me.
To my surprise, I heard an audible voice say very sternly, “Kirk!” It was so loud that I had to turn around to see who it was that was speaking to me, maybe one of my friends had been there, but there was no one. The voice then proceeded to say to me, “Stop Judging Her, and put out love towards her.” I was receiving a very stern rebuke, and it stopped me in my tracks.
It’s interesting to me, now that I am much older, how judgmental we can be. It seems that when we go anywhere, we are always passing out mental judgments on everyone that we come across.
“Oh, that hair looks awful on her.”
“Why would you wear something like that to church?”
“That is so ugly!”
“Does he not realize what type of restaurant he is in?”
“Could you possibly have any bigger hips?”
“Oh, dear, hasn’t anyone ever shown you how to put on any make-up, lady?”
I could go on and on.
We seem to think that it’s our job to make every possible mental judgment that we feel like at the time and dish it all out as if we are some authority over everything.
We “Nit-Pick” everyone who doesn’t fit our way of thinking. The truth is that “Mental Judgments” are something that we need to just flat out STOP doing. We do not know enough about another person’s life to righteously judge why they behave as they do.
I had been counseled to love all men. We remember that we are to be like God and God doesn’t put on his black robe until Judgement day. We have all heard that God is love.
One observation that I find fascinating is that there have been so many individuals who have come back from near-death experiences to say this exact thing. That “how we love others” needs to be a hallmark of how we behave while we are on the earth.
Everything created is part of the work of God, and we need to learn to love all that he has created, and this would include the earth and its creatures.
I was also told that “true charity” is to have a clean mind. A clean mind can be looked at from many angles. Clean meaning without spot, which would include not hating or judging others, not having anger towards others, nor thoughts of ungodliness of any kind.
God’s spirit cannot dwell with or in darkness of any type. If our minds are single with God, meaning that our minds think what God thinks, then we will stop passing out judgments.
I want my spirit to be illuminated with light as Gods is and if it is pure enough, we might have others come up to us to say, Hey, you’re glowing.
I have been working toward stopping giving out judgments for many years. And it’s not that easy, you have to really think about it. We get so good at passing out this mental energy onto those around us that we don’t realize it. So, whenever I find that I have passed out a “judgment” of some sort on a person, I catch myself and mentally in my mind I see myself pulling the thought back, wadding it up like crumpling up a piece of paper, and then I toss it into my mental trashcan.
This mental energy sticks to people. It’s as if we are taking a heavy rock and placing it in someone’s backpack for them to carry around for years. My Judgement is negative energy and I am directly projecting it on people. Over time, that pack gets heavy and it emotionally affect us, and we won’t know why we are so depressed.
Every so often, I will mentally throw out the emotional judgments that others have placed on me, I physically say “that I don’t accept them” and according to my faith in Christ, and in Jesus’ name, I throw them off and no longer consent to it. This allows me to clear out all the spiritual baggage that others have placed on me.
We don’t realize that we acquiesce to these energies by not throwing them off, so they remain, and that negative energy will influence us for many years to come. Some of this energy can be felt physically, also.
We need to step back and stop adding rocks into the backpacks of those around us.
Jesus said, “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”