I’ll never forget the feeling of making my first big choice between taking the sword, shield, or staff in Kingdom Hearts… and the concern I had with discarding one of them before I fully understood the ramifications of my decision. Along the way, I made different choices about how to level up my party, or which items to equip than how others played the game. Some were the right call for me and my style of play, and others were choices I’d later regret. Either way, the game would reveal if these were wise or foolish choices… and I was the one who’d have to deal with the fallout. All of us play the same game, but how we get to our ending is a unique story… no two play-throughs are alike.

It’s easy to be critical of the way others play the game of life, and judging how our fellow servants follow Christ (even with the best of intentions) is above our pay grade. How do we know what choices others felt forced to make before they fully understood that decision? We will all start in different places, serve the Lord in different ways, and follow different paths to His endgame. Let’s resist the urge to judge… that’s the fatal first step to self-righteousness. 

There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another? James 4:12

But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written: “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us shall give account of himself to God. Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way. Romans 14:10-13

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