(3 minute read)   So at the end, The Judge knows what I’ve done, like knows. Also, I know what I’ve done. The Judge does not ask if I have done these things, for there it is in black and white. To deny is to infuriate the Judge. As I seek the Judge’s mercy, grace and forgiveness, no way am I to try and deny, right?

Then why do many talk about the Bible as a measuring stick? All sin is the same to God, from a cuss word that crossed my mind without uttering the words, to desiring things for myself, to envy, to feeling deprived, to porn, to adultery, to many worst things your mind can imagine a man or woman can do to oneself or to others in their family or their community!  You believe that, right? Yes, you, the reader.

Then, again, why is there the belief out there that the Bible is a measuring stick??

To measure indicates a scale. A scale of benign sin, not so bad sin, this sin is really bad, that one is terrible. But there is no scale, do you agree??

So I hope you are on the same page when I say, “Since the Judge KNOWS ALL, and ALL is EQUAL to the Judge, then the Judge has no need to measure anything against anyone or measure anyone against anyone else.”

But the fact is, the Bible is indeed used by some as a measuring stick to point others to the path. Somehow we have forgotten that our role is to plant the seed, for the harvest is not ours, but God’s alone.

My prayer is that we do not hold our Bible as a closed book to smack someone on their head and point to their sins. Bringing shame on others crushes them, and the Lord wants a joyful spirit to come not a crushed one. Some may believe the path to joy is to be crushed first, but that’s not what the parable of the prodigal son teaches us.  The rich man did not hear his son’s confession and say, “glad that you know that you’ve sinned against me, and now that you have confessed……..” No, No, the rich man basically ignored his son’s confession and asked for the best robe, ring, sandals and prepared for a FEAST. Why did the father ignore the son’s confession? It’s simple. The father knows it, the son knows it and whom will it benefit to rub salt in the open wound?? Neither. Only some of the ‘observers’ were ticked off by the grace, love and generosity of the FATHER.

For none of us have NO splinter(s) in our own eyes. Let us use our Bible as a seed. Then use it again to water the seed periodically, and allow the harvester to harvest. For then and only then would the celebration be GRAND and the GLORY is to our Lord and Creator.