The Right Judgement

John 7:24
24Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgement.

Jesus spoke boldly to the Pharisees as they condemned Jesus for healing a man on the Sabbath. He pointed out to them that they circumcised on the Sabbath to keep what they believed was the Law of Moses but Jesus said it was actually given by the patriarchs. Jesus drew the comparison to show that what He was doing was no different from them. But more importantly, Jesus said they must make the right judgement. Now scripture is often misquoted and misinterpreted and because of a lack of knowledge people perish. When you are walking in the ways of the Lord, He gives the discernment and authority necessary to rightly divide good from evil. Is that not judging? The problem, many judge everything they see with the natural eye. But as this particular scripture references back to the story of how David was chosen king, we, as God's people are to judge EVERYTHING with our spiritual eyes. David was not chosen based on his appearance. God rightly divided his heart from that of his brothers. David's heart was sincere, a worker and one who fought to protect the sheep. Qualities needed for a king not just someone who looked tall and  handsome. Therefore, David was chosen over all his brothers. The facts are found in 1Samuel 16. What's the point? Everything that has taken place in the natural first occurs in the spiritual. So if it's off spiritually, then it will begin to manifest in the natural. If it's right spiritually, it will too manifest in the natural. The appearance of good is just how Adam and Eve got suckered. "Everything that looks good to you ain't good for you".  If you are not judging with your spiritual eyes, you can easily be suckered into evil. By the time you figure out it's not right, you are in a web deeper than you ever planned to be. Making the right judgement starts with learning what's right according to God's eyes. Man's eyes are tainted and need to be cleaned with a little spit from Jesus. Once you know what's right according to God's eyes, you will have the authority to rightly divide good from evil according to the Holy Spirit. It's also known as the gift of discernment.  A believer in Christ has been given some level of it, some just have a double portion. Are you making the right judgement?

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