Perspective

I was listening to a prophet recently and he shared a key that I want to share with you, dear ones. It has to do with perception. The man of God shared that back in the Garden when Chavah (Eve) was deceived and gave also to her husband Adam who was there with her their eyes were opened to good and evil. Whereas before they were innocent and saw things through the eyes of innocence, they now saw things through a different filter or lens. They now saw things through the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Knowing good and evil by nature makes it necessary to judge whether someone or something or a situation is either good or evil. Now Adam and Chavah found it necessary to judge a matter. They became aware that they were naked and decided that was not good, so they attempted to clothe themselves in fig leaves. Adam looked at his wife and judged what she had done as evil and therefore, it was her fault he had disobeyed God. When God came down to commune with them and asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?” Adam took it a step further, the answer he gave to God also brought accusation upon God himself since He was the one who gave Adam his wife.

Genesis 3:12 NASB

The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me some of the fruit of the tree, and I ate.”

After Yahweh questioned the woman, she judged the serpent as deceptive and evil and blamed it for her choice to disobey Yahweh and eat the fruit.

So it has been from then on. Every human being began to judge. Most often, our judgment is wrong, especially when it is directed toward people. Then Yeshua came to Earth and taught us that we are not to judge.

Matthew 7:1-3 NASB

Judging Others

“Do not judge, so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

However, we must judge a word or message and see if it aligns with scripture. (1 Corinthians 14:29) If a message or a prophetic word violates core scriptural standards, then we judge it as false and toss it out. Examples would be calling what God says is a sin like fornication and adultery or an abomination like homosexuality okay. If someone says we are to divorce our spouse and marry them or someone else, then that would be a false word. Even less dramatic examples like when God clearly tells you not to watch a certain movie and a church leader says it is okay because they got prophetic insight from it, we must judge as false because obedience is better than sacrifice. To obey God is better than to agree with man and be deceived like Adam and Chavah when they listened to the Serpent.

To judge a matter correctly, our vision must be clear and our hearts pure.

Matthew 6:22-23 NASB

“The eye is the lamp of the body; so then, if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Therefore, the goal is to guard our hearts and keep ourselves unspotted from sin as well as carnal or worldly things. We should walk in the light as He is in the light.

James 1:27 NIV

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

1 John 1:7 NIV

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

Dear ones, let’s choose to walk in the light and see things from Yahweh’s perspective….both good and evil. Let’s choose to call good what He calls good and sin what he calls sin. Let’s grow in our discernment and be lovers of the truth lest we are deceived and begin to judge people. And when we judge words, let us be like the Bereans who searched the scriptures daily to learn whether what Paul preached was true or not. Let us keep our hearts and motives pure and avoid judging people.

For further study, do a word search on ‘judge’ and remember that our perception will directly affect the choices we make and how we treat others. Selah

I also recommend doing a word search on biblegateway.com on the word ‘understand.’ It is interesting that when I did it, the first scripture to be shown was:

James 1:19-20 NASB

You know this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Now everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; for a man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness of God.

Think about that, dear ones. Shalom.