Assume the Best of Everyone

  • It is not my job to be the judge of another—all I have to do is love others.
  • In order to judge correctly, I would need to know everything— I know very little about myself let alone the details of others’ lives.
  • Begin by recognizing that no human being deserves the grace and mercy that God provides.
  • This statement puts a person in a spot before they do anything. Will some disappoint? Of course! Don’t let your experience with sinful people put everyone in a hole of distrust.
  • As people, we don’t know everything, and it is easy to fill our knowledge gaps by making assumptions about others that put them in the worst possible spot—assume the best until they give you a concrete reason to think otherwise.
  • This is not a blanket statement of trust no matter what a person does—this is a starting point for relationships and also recognizes that if God continues to give breath that there is hope for choices that would please God.

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself;
for thou that judgest doest the same things. But we are sure that the judgment of God  is according to truth against them which commit such things.
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
Romans 2:1–3

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
James 4:12