Devotional – Plus Interesting Reads – 07/19/2023

Posted on July 19, 2023 by directorfsm

In today’s modern and enlightened world, seemingly the worse thing one can do is judge someone else. Although to me it appears often to be one-sided, that is you better not judge what I have to say y’all better spew any of your lies either. I guess those with opposite views don’t consider that judging. Most often folks who hate the Bible can at least quote Jesus’ command not to judge others, Matthew 7:1-5. The problem is that most of the things even many evangelical Christians believe about judging are either taken wholly out of context or have no foundation in the Bible at all.

What does the Bible mean when it says, “Do not judge”?

What are some Bible verses about judging?

The bottom line for Christians is that we should both welcome Righteous Judgement (our text for today) and always strive to use righteous discernment in making decisions/judgments of our own.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary -7. judgments—rules of conduct formed by God’s judicial decisions; hence the wide sense of the word in the Psalms, so that it includes decisions of approval as well as condemnation.

Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible – I will praise thee with uprightness of heart,…. In the most sincere manner, in the most affectionate way, with the whole heart; sensible of great favours received, and great obligations laid under; see Psalm 9:1;

when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments; or, “the judgments of thy righteousness” (o): of the righteousness of God, declared in his righteous law; which is founded upon, and is according to, the strictest rules of justice and equity; and so are all the precepts of it: and of the righteousness of Christ, revealed in the Gospel; by which God appears to be just, while he is the justifier of him that believes in Jesus. Now the precepts of the one, and the doctrines of the other, are to be learned, and learned of God, in his word and by his Spirit. The psalmist had been learning them, but was desirous of learning more of them, not being a complete proficient in them; and of learning them, not merely in the theory, but in the practice and experience of them; which, when he had attained unto, as he hoped he should, it would be matter of the most sincere praise and thankfulness.

(o) “judicia justitiae tuae”, Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Musculus, Gejerus; so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis.

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