Christians and non-Christians alike, I’m almost positive you’ve all heard the following phrase, “He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her,” or some variation of this. This quote is from John 8:7 in the Bible, when the woman is caught in the act of adultery and all the people of the town want to stone her, but stop when they realize they have also committed sins.
Now, the moral of this story is that we can’t judge other people for what they do because we are not perfect and we have no room to talk about their mistakes.
So please, riddle me this: Why do we still judge each other?
No one wins. In the end, we are all the same people. We may not make the exact same mistakes, but we all make mistakes. Granted, some are bigger than others, but they’re mistakes nonetheless. What gives anyone the right to judge someone else? Guess what? You don’t have that right, and neither do I.
I’m sure you’ve all been on Facebook and have seen someone posting a status along the lines of, “That girl you just called fat? She starves herself every day. The guy you made fun of for not being able to read? He’s dyslexic.” So on and so forth. Usually, I would say that 90 percent of people scroll past those statuses and believe they’re annoying and dumb. (Here's a little secret: I’m one of those people.) But you know what’s sad? Those statuses, those posts on social media that seem so pointless, are so true.
Words hurt. Judgement hurts. We all are human, we all go through struggles that we don’t know how to handle or what to do. We all do things that are wrong because sometimes it just makes life easier, or at the time it seemed like a good idea. But, let me ask you this: How do you feel when people whisper about you, and you know it’s you they’re talking about? How would you like to be a mother, let’s say a young one, and struggling, trying to do the best for your child, and all you hear is “She’s a slut, she got pregnant too young. That baby isn’t going to have a good life.” Or let’s say you were an addict, you’re recovering. Do you really want to hear people say, “He’s going to die, you can’t come back from that. He’s so stupid he screwed his life up.”
My mom always tells me, no matter what I do, people are always going to judge me for it. I guarantee as I’m writing this some of you are judging me right now. You’re judging because you know what I’m saying is true. You know that you make mistakes, yet you still condemn others for theirs. Don’t feel too bad. I’m right there with you.
The moral here is if we judged less, the world would be more accepting. Judge less, love more.
