Holy Together in the Gospel - Wait for God's Judgment | March 10, 2024

Maybe not all of us don a robe and pick up a gavel, but we often play the role of judge. We judge people’s appearances, their actions, their attitudes, and their aptitudes. Why do we do that? Is it because God gave us human beings the responsibility to take dominion over the earth as Genesis 1:26-28 describes? Or is it because when we humans ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil that we have wrongly seen ourselves as being a pretty good judge of character and other people’s actions? However, have you ever made the wrong judgment? I have! Too many times to count. How embarrassing. Ministry is a particular easy target for our judgments. Maybe because ministry is so public that it is open to greater scrutiny? In 1 Corinthians 4, we find Paul’s plea to wait until God judges a ministry. In fact, Paul didn’t even judge his own ministry’s effectiveness. Come this Sunday to learn how to delay your judgments for the Ultimate Judge to speak first. Someday we will even judge angels. But until that day, do what my grandfather taught his family, “Wait for the Judgment!”