Do not judge! Yet at the same time we are encouraged to correct wrongdoing. How are these rectifiable? How can we forgive seven times seventy and turn around and say stealing is wrong?
Stop
Think
Pause
Unpause
Okay, hands up, how many thought 'love the sinner, hate the sin'? Can we truly love someone who has wronged us and simultaneously want them punished?
Alright, enough questions. If we truly love someone we do not wish them to come to harm. Sin harms the sinner, and so we do our best to charitably chide one another when we show signs of entering a near occasion of sin. We are our brother's keeper, but not our brother's warden. We cannot force someone to make the right decision, we can only do our best to help them make the right one, in failing that, to minimize harm. We should remember that we are brothers and sisters ( hah, gender inclusive this time ). Above all we must learn to love as He loved (and loves and will loves).
Sorry about the shallowness of this thought, any further and I'd be drowning at the moment.
God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey
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