Everyone is judgmental. It is human nature. We judge ourselves and we judge others just based on what we see. That is not what God wants us to do. It is wrong. When we judge ourselves, a lot of times we think we are not good enough for others and other times we think we are way better than others. The latter of those is prideful, which is sin. The former, keeps us from seeing God's image in us and keeps us from feeling worthy of His love. When we think something is wrong with ourself, we try to fix it by conforming to other ways or the world's ways. That is wrong. We need to look in and ask God to change it. But really we need to fix our eyes on Jesus. Channel that energy towards knowing how much He loves you and praising Him and sharing with others.
Ephesians 2:7-10 (MSG)
Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish! We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.
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