Self-judging

If we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.

1 Corinthians 11:31

Jonathan knew he shouldn’t use the company computer to access personal websites, but he did it anyway. As a result, his boss appeared in his office one day, asked for Jonathan’s keys and files, and summarily marched him outside the building, firing him. Jonathan was humiliated, but he had no one to blame but himself. If he had evaluated and corrected his behavior, others would not have done so. If he had judged himself, he would not have been judged.

To judge our sins means to see them as God sees them. It means to hate those sins and to know that God wants to put them out of our lives. It means to honestly acknowledge moral failures in our lives and to deal with them through genuine, lasting confession and repentance.

King David did this in Psalm 32:3–5: “When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality was turned into the drought of summer. I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,’ and You forgave the iniquity of my sin.”

Does anything in your life need to be evaluated and corrected today?