The Verdict You Didn’t Earn
We are quick to construct entire prisons for people based on a single keyhole view.
Someone says a thing. Someone does a thing. Someone allegedly said or did a thing. And just like that, the verdict is in. We hand down the sentence—distance, disdain, dismissal—without ever having sat on the jury.
The tragedy of disliking people over what we heard is that we condemn them for a fraction of their story. We judge the chapter without reading the book. We take secondhand smoke and treat it as fire. We forget that every rumor is a translation, and every translation is a betrayal.
And yet.
While we are standing in judgment over others based on fragments, God is standing over us—not with fragments, but with the full picture. The unedited reel. The thoughts we didn’t say. The motives we disguised. The grace we hoarded. The bitterness we justified.
He knows the worst of you. Not a rumor of you, not a distorted version of you, not the you that was caught off guard on a bad day—He knows the real you. The one you hide from LinkedIn and small talk. The one you barely admit to yourself in the dark.
And He has not disliked you into exile.
That is the staggering truth: God is not repelled by His own intelligence. He does not weaponize His omniscience. He sees every broken part of you and does not label you by your fractures.
So perhaps the discipline of withholding judgment is not just an act of social maturity—it is an act of theological humility. You are not loving people because they are easy to love. You are loving them because you have first been loved in your own un-lovability.
Stop disliking people over what you heard.
Not because the information is unreliable, but because you have been spared the verdict you absolutely deserved.
Let your tolerance of others be nothing more than gratitude that God’s knowledge of you did not become His rejection of you.
Inspired by :
Matthew 7:1–2 (NIV)
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Christ directly connects the mercy we extend to the mercy we require. It is not merely a command to be nice—it is a warning that the standard we apply to others is the standard that will be applied to us. If we demand perfection from the hearsay we hear, God would be just to demand perfection from the totality He sees.
Thanks for reading. May God’s Grace be sufficient for you dear!!!! Shalom and life to you.
