[Manna - July 25]
There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? James 4:12
IT is in harmony with this thought that the Apostle
Paul declares in one place that neither the world nor
the brethren were capable of judging him—that only
the Lord, who could read the heart and know all the
conditions and testings and weaknesses to be striven
against, could properly judge.
He even declares, "Yea,
I judge not mine own self." (1 Corinthians 4:3)
It is an
excellent
plan neither to condemn others who claim to
be walking conscientiously as children of the Lord,
nor even to condemn ourselves under similar circumstances.
We should simply press along day by day,
doing the best we can to cultivate the heavenly
graces and to serve our Master, leaving all the results
with the Lord. Z.'99-139 R2480:2