Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Do not judge, or you too will be judged. - Matthew 7:1

No matter the depth of conviction I feel toward judging, it is still a stubborn stronghold. And I'm not talking about the mom who is cursing at her child in the middle of Target. Or the teenager with the marijuana cigarette hanging from his lips. Not even the woman who is secretly having an affair! I'm talking about hard core evil.

I recently met a man who works with my husband. When I was introduced to him I realized that I had met him before, but I couldn't place him. While I was passing time he came up to me and said: isn't it crazy what happened in Japan? We started speaking about the state of our planet . Now let me describe this guy to you. Tattoos all over his body. Including the symbol of the devil on his inner arm. All of a sudden he tells me: Everyone has to get right with God because judgement day is coming! Huh? Really?! Did he just say that?!

He shared his testimony with me. After living a life of doing hard drugs, dating witches, going to dracula balls (where they drink real human blood, or cows blood), homosexuality, giving his life to satan, God called him! This was my first time meeting a former devil worshipper (or so I think) and I must say I was inspired! He told me how the father of lies had told him he was going to have a high position in hell, so he had nothing to worry about. Satan showed him the chambers of hell and swore he would have a position somewhat like that of a correction officer. He would be the guy keeping everyone under control as they tried climbing out of the lake of fire. He actually knew he was going to hell! And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. - Revelation 20:15

One night while he was doing cocaine with his witch girlfriend, he hit rock bottom. The night turned into morning and being so high he beat the girl almost to death. He fell to the floor in despair. Flashbacks of his whole entire life started playing out in his mind. He said all he saw was death. Then: Come to my house on Tuesday. Really God? I thought church was on Sundays. Come to me.  So he went. He has been saved ever since! It was difficult in the beginning. There were many demons living inside of him and the pastor of the church had an extremely difficult time. He often cursed at the pastor and even physically attacked him. But glory to God that church never gave up on him, nor did God! I will never leave nor forsake you. - Hebrews 13:5 


There are also elders in the dark world, so he explained to me. One day, an elder approached him about his conversion to Christianity. He boldly professed his love for Jesus and witnessed the gospel! The elder told him: if I didn't know you, I would spit in your face! But he just kept on witnessing!  The joy that radiated from this man was incredible and a wonderful reminder that Jesus came for us ALL! He loves and cares and DIED for us sinners. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. - Romans 5:6


What an important message to teach my children. The love of God is not prejudice. All are welcome into His bosom. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. - John 1:17 Everyone is accepted through Christ to a new life. We were all saved by grace. Thank you Jesus!

Will you please keep this young man in prayer; lets just call him G. Thank you.

In Love and Kindness.....
No Judging......

2 comments:

  1. Tanya,

    What a wonderful post! We are all so quick to judge and are almost always wrong. Our flesh is threatened by anything that is different to us, and we respond by condemning. Your post is a reminder yet again of how we need to show the same grace and understanding we expect.

    Blessings to you.

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  2. Thank you for commenting! Blessings upon blessings to you....

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