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Condemn, condone, console, consider.
These are the four basic approaches available to us when dealing with our fellow-humans.
Jesus had his angle. The Jews, the Romans and the culture did not agree.
Just this week, one of my sons asked me what I thought about marriage equality. I smiled. Because honestly, you cannot approach individuals as a group and develop an opinion of “them” and think you’re doing anything that resembles righteousness.
In other words:
- Not all Baptists are Southern.
- Not all Catholics are Pope worshippers.
- And not all homosexuals are hapless victims of a bigoted society.
So Jesus had his criteria for evaluating life.
Jesus did condemn. It is ridiculous to assume that he was “liquid love” seeping into every hidden crevice of human existence. It’s just that he didn’t condemn what most people condemned. It’s popular to condemn things that are different from us and try to make them look weird.
Jesus condemned hypocrisy.
It would be easy to get along with Jesus of Nazareth as long as you didn’t go into your bull-crap mode. You could make mistakes, fall short, have inconsistencies or even sin, and his profile would basically be, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.”
Likewise, Jesus always condoned those who insisted on finding a way to love. When James and John became infuriated with the Samaritans because the disciples were forbidden entrance into the city, Jesus cautioned them that when we fail to give a loving response, we lose control of the end result.
Jesus did console. Yet when they asked him to express his empathy and pity for those killed by a tower falling on them, he surprised them all by saying, “Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”
But Jesus always consoled those who repented. Repentance is the first journey we must take on our way to receive our gift of grace.
And Jesus certainly was a man who took time to consider. He considered the lily. Why? Because it did what it was supposed to do without demanding attention while producing great beauty.
Jesus always chose to consider those who knew there was more to believe, more to receive and more to retrieve.
What you do with condemn, condone, console and consider will determine the quality of your life, and possibly even your eternal destination.
So as a Jesonian follower I will condemn hypocrisy, condone those who pursue life with love, console the repenter and consider the individuals who comprehend, yet still know there is more.
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