To Criticize or Judge

Why are we so quick to cast judgment on an individual? Should we not instead weigh the matter first, and in an even balance? One's soul is the sum of many choices through the course of life. We, however, outside that particular soul either condemn or glorify them - in our own souls coincidentally - based upon the few or even a singular event that we may witness. This is why we are warned against such reservations.

To be sure, what is evil glorifies the evil one, just as what is holy glorifies the Holy One. Nevertheless, try as we might we can never separate these two choices so that we might please one or the other except the Spirit of their being (I am speaking of Christ or of Satan respectively and no more of others) be within us. To give ourselves over wholly to these contrasting lifestyles is to inevitably comprehend the design and consequently the destination of our souls altogether.

copyright 2005. travis marshall iv