Look Again Before You Judge
Some years ago, a woman was waiting for an airplane. She went to an airport shop and bought a bag full of cookies and sat down in the terminal. Soon, a man came and sat down beside her. The cookies were in between the two of them, unopened. The man reached over, opened the cookies, took one out, and began to eat it. The woman thought it was rude of the man to do that, so she reached in, got one, ate it herself, giving him a dirty look. He just smiled, then reached in and got another. They traded back and forth until there was only one cookie left in the bottom. With a smile, the man broke it in half, took one half, and left her the other half. As she got on the plane, the woman thought to herself that she had never encountered anyone so arrogant. Then she opened her purse........there was her bag of cookies, unopened. Sometimes we judge other people because of our ignorance. Other times, it's because we’re insensitive. We don’t love as we ought to. Jesus didn't come to condemn — He came to save. As John 3:17 says, “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” If you have misjudged someone, reach out to them and apologize. It's never too late to right a wrong.
