When you judge, you should not judge by outward appearance. When you judge search for what is right and just.
Observation
The religious leaders and the people in the temple court were judging Jesus. Jesus didn't look like a coming king. They couldn't understand what Jesus was saying in the temple because they were stuck on Jesus being from Galilee. Instead of seeking God in what Jesus was saying the religious leaders made up their mind that Jesus was heretical and needed to be killed.
Jesus challenges their and our thinking. He says in a sense "search your own heart and see if the words I speak are not true." Is making a man whole on the sabbath right and just? Yes.
Application
How do I know what God is doing? I search for what is just and right. I don't look at the way things seem, I look through the eyes of Christ instead. In myself alone, I really don't have a clue about what is right and just. But as I fall more in love with Jesus, I begin to know the Fathers heart and know what is right and just. When I'm unsure, I just ask The Lord, He is faithful to give wisdom generously to all that ask.
Prayer
Father, I don't want to put You in a box and define You with my own shortsightedness. Please give me Your eyes of justice and righteousness, so that I many not judge by outer appearance, but by what is just and right. Thank You Lord, I love You!
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