Judging and Setting at Nought

"Thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? Or thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgement seat of God." - Romans 14:10

Two things are here forbidden to us: 'judging' and 'setting at nought', an outward act and an inner attitude. I may not yet have gone so far as openly to express a judgement on my brother. Very good, but am I summing him up to myself unfavourably? Do I secretly pity him because he does not see as I see? Do I despise him in my heart as weak or eccentric? If so I am in rare peril, for my next step is to assume I am therefore better than he. If I despise him, then it is quite certain I think over much of myself. Let me beware of classing myself as spiritually strong, for that is only to betray to God my own carnality. Of course He would have me discern clearly between right and wrong, but I must never make others the victims of my discernment. The judgment seat is Christ's, and is still future. Who of us dare usurp its function now?

A Table In The Wilderness (Watchman Nee 主僕倪柝聲弟兄)

Read the Scriptures: Romans 14