We can call it analysis, objectivity or any other fancy term, but at the end of the day, it is what God warns us against in Matthew 7:
"Don't pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults--unless, of course, you want the same treatment. That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging..."Measuring ourselves by others is a trap out of which we have to continually step. Our minds will always take us there if we don't stand a constant vigil. We do it to comfort ourselves, to pat ourselves on the back that someone else is somewhere else that we are somehow above.
The reality that God puts forth looks very different:
We are all in the exact same cesspool.
Any and all of us can call on Him to get out.
He is the only rescue out of the cesspool.When we judge, we devalue that person. Even if we only do it in our mind, it is helpful to remember that we have an audience of One even then.
Besides that embarrassment, there is another startling truth:
To the extent we judge, we are not free to be ourselves.We are tethered to...judgment.
Better to be our cesspool selves in need of rescue.
