Jesus’ Words in Red Right Judgment

Jesus’ Words in Red 

Right Judgment 

“Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment."

Henry Ford made it easy to judge what color of car you got

But life is not that easy

Still to this day most cars are a shade of black or white

Life is full of color and beauty

But there are a lot of beautiful things that can kill you

Only God the Father judges from a view that takes in all the multidimensional

Or multifaceted aspects of life

So if we want to make “Right Judgments”

We must let the Father teach us

That is how to make difficult decisions and judgments simple 

Better than black and white and a rainbow of color  

Right Judgment

Our lives are multidimensional or multifaceted.

Single or two definitional things are easier to understand.

 

If life could only be black or white.

But there is a host of colors.

Objects like diamonds have many faces.

Even the same objects looking from the same

direction seem to change with light and darkness.

At the start of the automotive industry

paint colors were available.

But if you ask Henry Ford what color

can you get a Model T, he would say…

 “Any customer can have a car painted any

color that he wants as long as it’s black.”

The development of paints came

after WWI in times of peace.

Colors seem to pause when the market crashed

in 1929, but despite the downtrodden economic

times the 1930s added fish scales to the paint.

This was very costly as it took

40,000 herring to make one kilo of paint.

 After WWII manufactures were again

asking what paint colors consumers wanted.

Although a used yellow car will sell for

more than the same car in a white or

black, we don’t sell too many yellow cars.

Look in any parking lot and the variations

of white and black are most popular.

  

Why?  The manufactures and consumers

for the most part want to play it safe.

Life is easier with fewer choices.

Most of us make judgments

based on fewer choices.

Salesmen limit your choices to get you to

make a decision and get the sale quicker.

We get overwhelmed when

we have multiple choices.

Although we love colors and shapes most of

us will stick with the basic and safe choices.

Life is full of decisions.

 We have to make judgments every day.

The judgments we make are always

more involved than black and white.

Because life is multifaceted and multidimensional.

Whether we want to splash color all over

everything like a tie die T-shirt or we like

to play it safe with our whites and blacks…

We have to find a way to make right judgments.

The judgments we make are not all the same.

What I choose for lunch is not a big deal

as long as it is healthy, because I will

have another meal in a few hours.

But there are judgments that have longer

term effects that we have to deal with.

Today, we have those on the Left and the Right.

Jesus had the same thing,

 those who held to the “law of Moses”

and those with liberal thinking.

Jesus said…

“Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment."

Jesus tells us how He makes “right judgments”…

John 7:16-19

 "My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me. 17 If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. 18 He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. 19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law.

Jesus’ teaching dealt with life making

judgments on how we should life.

His teachings were not based on how life

appears on earth, but how it appears in heaven.

It was the Heavenly Fathers view.

His perspective should teach us how to judge life.

 

Next time you prefer to make something

black or white or a rainbow of colors

ask yourself the question…

How Does God the Father see it?

Let God be true and every man a liar.

Henry Ford made it easy to

judge what color of car you got.

But life is not that easy.

Still to this day most cars

are a shade of black or white.

Life is full of color and beauty.

But there are a lot of beautiful

things that can kill you.

Only God the Father judges from a view

that takes in all the multidimensional

or multifaceted aspects of life.

 So if we want to make “Right Judgments”…

We must let the Father teach us.

That is how to make difficult

decisions and judgments simple.

 

Better than black and white

and a rainbow of color.

  

Scripture Reading

John 7:14-24 NIV

14 Not until halfway through the Feast did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach. 15 The Jews were amazed and asked, "How did this man get such learning without having studied?"

16 Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me. 17 If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. 18 He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. 19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?" 

20 "You are demon-possessed," the crowd answered. "Who is trying to kill you?"

21 Jesus said to them, "I did one miracle, and you are all astonished. 22 Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a child on the Sabbath. 23 Now if a child can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing the whole man on the Sabbath? 24 Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment."