Assumptions

When we look at the actions of others and make negative assumptions about their motivations--motivations that we cannot know--we become participants in the new McCarthyism--"guilty until proven innocent." And then we gossip about it--the sin of self-worship--idolatry of the most arrogant kind. We need as followers of Christ to not practice those sins that we are quick to point out in others--we falsely assume the worst and attempt to destroy the character of others--murder by imagination. Too often, we pridefully walk around with stones in our pockets waiting for the opportunity to cast the first one. God is the judge of the thoughts and intents of a man or woman's heart because He knows them--we don't. May God enable me to set aside the natural man's readiness to assume the worse and spread gossip about it, and replace it with the spirit-filled man's eagerness to leave justice in the hands of the just and loving and forgiving God of the Cross.