The Lord is saying: I Am here, and I Am with you. Keep your eyes upon Me. Keep your heart close to Mine. Offer others good things as you share what I have given you. Let your speech be uplifting and encouraging, for you never know how a nice word will lift someone’s countenance. Do what is right and you will be commended by all that know Me. Even those who do not know Me understands right from wrong as My Word is written on every heart. But there are many who do not know Me and are quick to judge you if you are not in line with what they believe. These you are to be especially praying for, that their hearts be willing to receive what you have to offer them, which is My love. When you see a brother or sister who knows Me that are in sin, you are to call them out and help show them their error, and you will be commended by them for helping. But be careful not to judge harshly the world in their sin, for I Am the Judge, and I know how to break through into their hearts and lives. You are to show My love to them so that they are enticed to hear what My Spirit is speaking to them. So do not put yourself in the place of judge, for this is My role. Your role is to carry My Word wherever you go and speak life to the dead, that they rise and are saved from eternal peril and instead to eternal life. As you focus on Me, I can guide you most effectively in the lives of others.
Rom 2:1-11 (ESV) Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. 2 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. 3 Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. 6 He will render to each one according to his works: 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, 10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. 11 For God shows no partiality.
(Matt 7:1-5; John 13:34-35; Col 3:1-2)
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