Could you be a judge and get paid to judge people more
harshly? Recently I read a story about a judge who did that. This judge was
taking money from a juvenal detention center so that kids would be shipped to this
facility. The problem: they were extremely minor offenses and were followed by
long sentences.
A quote from one of the people whose life was changed
forever Laurene Transue said this about this Judge (Ciavarella)…."He was playing God.
And not only was he doing that, he was getting money for it. He was betraying
the trust put in him to do what is best for children.”
The rest of this article can be read here.
This was a messed up story. Kids lives were ruined because
of one judge. Often we as people can get wrapped into judging was we don’t
like. Someone disagrees with our take on life and we cast that person aside.
Christians are often thrown under this bus as being
extremely judgmental because of our take on life. While someone Christians go
way overboard with this judging, some leave the judging to God. Being a
Christian doesn’t make us the judger we are just following the rules of the one
that created the judge.
Paul said this in 2 Corinthians 5:10, “For we must all appear before
the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for
the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.”
Paul try to do this by living his life to go to heaven and
hear “Well done, My good servant,” from Luke 19:17. He looks at this not as a heaven and hell but
rather how we lived our lives we will be judged and we will be compensated.
Going to heaven or hell is an individual faith issue. We don’t have the ability
to chose who goes to heaven or hell, but God does. Paul lets us know our good
deeds will have one response (1 Cor. 4:5, Eph. 6:8) and our bad have another
response (1 Cor. 3:15; Col. 3:25).
This judging that Paul face changed his outlook on life,
what does it do for you? Knowing that Paul was going to face judgment made him
strive to do good things and overcome the hatred, personal attacks and threats
on his life. When you face bad situations in your life, do you do good or bad?
The judge who put young kids in bad situations. Got 28 years
in jail. He reaped what he sowed. How are you going to live your life knowing
one day you will be judged accordingly?
Have a great day.
