And You Are???

I just want to say that we all have our issues and flaws. I have a million and one that I really need to work on. Some I know of some I don't but we can't go around judging people because they're not like us. WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE ANYONE??? The Bible says "He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone." - John 8:7 Instead of judging people, why not help them?

I see this all the time where someone would come to church for the first time and they're not dressed "appropriately" for Sunday service. Instead of giving them the side eye, why not ask to speak to them in private and talk to them. NOT DOWN TO THEM!!! Talk TO them. If you do decide to TALK TO THEM, make sure you don't look JUST LIKE THEM. You have to be an example to them.

What really gets me is how people will say "You know who I saw in the liquor store yesterday?" How did you see someone in there if you weren't in there yourself? Matthew 7:3-5 says:

"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." - KJV

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye, when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." - NIV

How can you criticize someone for being somewhere when you were there to see them in the first place??? I really don't understand that. You see someone smoking and you're the first to say, "your a Christian, you shouldn't defile your temple," mind you, you smell like you just smoked 3 pounds of weed. STOP.

Like I said before, I'm not the most perfect person in the world. When I try to help someone out, I make sure I put MYSELF out there and let them know I may have done that before but NOW I don't and I don't want you to make the same dumb choices I made. I always get called a hypocrite, and I know I am one, BUT I'm changing for the better and while I'm at it I'm trying to help someone else.

I encourage everyone to do the same. But PLEASE be careful of how you come off to people. You WILL be called a hypocrite, DO NOT spaz, DO NOT give up, just say I know what I did and I'm not proud of it, hence I'm trying to change for the better and I want to help you so you don't end up in my predicament. Tell them that enough and trust they will start to hear you.

One more thing, JUST SAYING IT IS NOT ENOUGH!!! You have to PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH!!! I don't like to use that saying too much but it's true. If you don't you LIVE what you talk about, you are IN FACT a hypocrite.

I hope someone will understand what I'm saying and try to put it into practice. God Bless.