Only God Can Judge Us

Only God Can Judge Us

By: Joanne Christine Mocay

The saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is already considered as a cliché but its message was still significant and essential nowadays in reminding people not to judge or discriminate other people.

It was very hard to remove the attitude of being judgmental and discriminating. Most of us judge and sometimes stereotype other people by their physical appearance and disabilities without thinking first what if I was them. Everyone is unique on their own way so let us try to put ourselves on their situation so that we can understand their feelings also.  Judging people can lower their self-confidence and self-worth. They have the possibility to downgrade themselves which can give stress to their part.

We cannot accept the fact that we only remember mistakes and shortcomings while the positive sides and correct ones are mostly forgotten. In a quiz or in an exam, we frequently forget the correct answers but we always remember the mistakes. Suppose you got 99 correct answers on a 100 points exam, the item you will never forget the most would be that one item where you got the wrong answer right? We can reflect from this example that, we always disregard the good things a person did and destroys them for their one mistake.

Deny it or not but we are fun of judging other people by looking only on the outside and not on the inside. We should not destroy, judge and discriminate our fellow man for us to boost up ourselves and look good to other people because in God’s eyes, we are all the same and we all have equal rights. Instead, we should help each other to uplift one’s status and have the aim not to be a hindrance for one’s success.

Don’t judge a book by its cover because like humans, you don’t know what stories they have on the inside and what struggles they have gone through. Let us always remember that, “only God can judge us” and we are not Him to judge other people.