Day 3 - February 20 - Lent - Revive Today

Matthew 7:1-5Amplified Bible (AMP)

7 Do not judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves.

2 For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others, you will be judged and criticized and condemned, and in accordance with the measure you [use to] deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you.

3 Why do you stare from without at the very small particle that is in your brother’s eye but do not become aware of and consider the beam of timber that is in your own eye?

4 Or how can you say to your brother, Let me get the tiny particle out of your eye, when there is the beam of timber in your own eye?

5 You hypocrite, first get the beam of timber out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the tiny particle out of your brother’s eye.

By Grace, today I will fast from being judgemental and hold fast to Christ’s grace. Today I will not judge people’s hearts that I cannot see, but love people’s hearts so they see Christ in me. We repent of being judgemental because it makes us think we can be God-like—instead of us being like Christ. Make us like Christ’s Cruciform, Cross-formed, Love.

We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:20-21).