Loving
Correction – January 7
I saw an animation at a certain
website about a teacher. She started her class by writing equations on the
whiteboard. She wrote, “9x1=7; 9x2=18; 9x3=27; 9x4=36 and 9x5=45”. Her class
started to laugh then she asked them what was wrong. One of the students said, “Your
first equation is wrong.”
She kept silent for a while and
asked her students, “Did you not notice the four other equations that I wrote were
correct? Why did you just see that one equation that I wrote wrong?” And the
class went utterly quiet. And she continued, “We tend to see flaws rather than
the good things that people have. We criticise people for making mistakes or
for doing actions that is not acceptable to us. Why don’t we acknowledge the
good, as well?”
Human as I am; I easily see people’s
mistakes and I tend to continue noticing it but I don’t like it when people see
my flaws; ironic, isn’t it? I am always tempted to judge a person without
knowing the real reason behind his/her actions. I tend to forget the good side
of the person.
In this world full of people who
ridicules others; we are not safe because even if we do a lot of perfectly
acceptable things to the people dear to us-a single mistake can ruin
everything; a single mistake can make them forget everything that you’ve done
for them; a single mistake can even ruin a life-long relationship.
“For you will be treated as you
treat others”, (Matthew 7:12). There is nothing wrong in speaking our mind but
we must first make sure that before we speak for others; we know their stories
and the reasons behind their verve. We do not have the right to judge them or
to speak to him of our judgement because the truth is; we don’t know all the
facts and we can’t read their minds.
Only God can is the perfect judge to
people.
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