Judge Not!

One day, many moons ago, while shopping in Metrojaya Buikit Bintang, I witnessed this young mother beating her daughter. The poor soul was crying her lungs out. Shoppers were crowding around them; non responded to stop the young mother or tried to allay further beatings. I took the initiative and walked towards the mother.

I could only managed to utter one word, "excuse" when this young mother burst out crying. I was slightly embarrassed by the sudden outburst. The crowd started to disperse when they thought all is well. I stood there with the young lady as she explain her predicament in between sobs.

She told me she was a single mother and doesn't know how to care and love her daughter correctly. She truly loved her. But the daughter was mischievous by her benchmark. She tried to spend as much time with her. Someday she even took her to work.

She admitted to me that many times she contemplated suicide together with her daughter or leaving her daughter at the orphanage so that she could start all over again. But she truly loved her and promised herself that she would not give up the struggle to bring her up. Close friends and relatives evaded mother and daughter because of her bad choice in her husband.

She told me she hugged her daughter and assured her how much she loved her each time after a beating.

She wasn't prideful holding back explaining her weakness to me, a total stranger. I was glad I stayed to listen to her. If she did not explained and I did not stayed to listen, I am sure I would have totally misunderstood her beating her child.

God, our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus taught us to love each other, to love our neighbors like ourselves. In Luke 6:46, our Saviour Lord Jesus asked why called Him Lord! Lord! when we don't obey what He has taught us.

It is easy to claim that I am a Christian but followed a different lifestyle. Titus 1:16

I realized I would never be able to offer any form of assistance to anyone because I decided so. But I could help anyone if I draw strength from my Saviour and asked Him to live in me in the power of the Holy Spirit to help. I can love if Christ lives in me.

I cannot do anything for Christ's glory if I chose to live independant of Him.

I would have condemned the young mother for beating her child senselessly. I thanked my heavenly Father for teaching me to understand why not to simply judge people when we do not know the truth.

Our heavenly Father knows the end from the beginning. Everything happened for a reason and everything works according to His plans for His glory.

When I was rotten and a reject, a sinner who is not worthy of anything, Christ came to die for me on the cross. Jesus alone loves me. I am the worst sinner but Jesus never gave up on me.

With all sincerity, I could have passed judgement on the parents for the lives of their three children. (A couple was arrested for taking the lives of their 3 children in Malaysia in a suicide pact that went awry). I am glad I did not because each day I pray for grace to work in my life and today I pray that God in Jesus Christ will work His grace through me. Without His grace, I am still rotten, rejected and lost out there.

Without grace, probably I could be worst than the parents of the 3 lost children.

I do not want to be arrogant about my faith lest God send me a test too great that I may fail. I know I will surely fall away if God removed His grace from me. What am I without the Holy Spirit who lives in me to fill me and equip me to live my earthly life for the honor and glory of Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour.

As a Christian, I learn each day to view everything from God's heart and not interpret anything by my own wisdom. My wisdom is foolishness to Him. I may pass judgement wrongly!

I could have ended up a crook, a rapist, a snatch thief, a murderer, a person filled with all types of evil if not for the grace, mercy and unfailing love of my Saviour, Lord Jesus.

I pray for the parents whom many people are judging them and bind the powers of the evil one so that in each of us, we reign with Christ our Lord with victory. I asked for Christ grace, mercy and unfailing love for them. I pray our Saviour is there with them right now, not because they deserved anything but because Christ is Lord and Saviour, because of His abundance mercies. Because He came to die for the undeserving like me.

Christmas ain't Christmas if Christ did not come to die for us when we were still sinners!

Merry Christmas!