1But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11“No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
How often do we cast judgement on people only to make ourselves feel better? "A tleast I don't do ________ like he does." "Look how she lives her life. At least I don't do that." I know I do it. How much different would the world be if we approached each person we encounter with humility instead of judgement? We were challenged at church yesterday to not cast stones of judgement against others, as we are all imperfect. If you're interested, you can download a podcast of the service here. It should be up later today or tomorrow.
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hmm, thanks for posting that, good point, im emailing it to my girls- i may listen to the podcast later..
ReplyDeleteawesome and i will try and listen to it this week. i want to go to your church when i come! sally
ReplyDeleteGreat post. We all need to be reminded of this consistently.
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