6.22.14

  
 Lectio: Mt 7.1-5                                              

Meditatio: “Stop judging, that you may not be judged.” M7.1

Oratio: O God, sometimes Your Son’s advice is puzzling.

I remember Jesus told His disciples to stop judging; yet we know that we have to continually make judgments in this life - what did He mean?  Jesus was mindful that we must judge at times but what He was speaking about was how we judge. He knew we are often hard in our judgments on others and that is what He wanted stopped. He in fact only wants us to judge others the way we judge ourselves for He knew we give ourselves the benefit of the doubt and He wants us to do the same for others.

Contemplatio: spend some time in silence and meditate on the selected passage and hear what
God is saying to you.

Operatio: reflect: "stop judging”; appears to be an absolute; yet experience tells us that at times we must judge such when a moral choice must be made, so obviously, Jesus did not mean the obvious; what He meant was for us to use the same standards for judging others as we judge ourselves and then the measure we use will be more than fair.
 
Tomorrow's reading Lk 57-66, 80