Sunday, May 23, 2010
King Benjamin
I love listening to or reading about King Benjamin's talk to his people. I was reminded again this week about how we are all beggars. We have had several beggars set up on the street corners lately here in Idaho Falls. I saw one of them smoking the other day and was tempted to think that if I gave him money, he would probably buy cigarettes. I have a tendency to judge the motives of these people and try to decide how needy they really are and wonder why they don't just get a job. King Benjamin teaches that it is not my place to judge. I cannot always stop in the middle of a busy intersection to give a beggar some money but I am going to try much harder not to be critical or judgmental. As the scriptures remind us, "With what judgement ye judge, ye will also be judged". Maybe in God's eyes, I am just as needy and helpless as those beggars on the street corners!
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Funny that I was listening to those same chapters this week. I had some similar thoughts. One thing that stood out to me was King Benjamin's statement,
"Are we not all beggars?" In some ways I am not so different from the beggars on the street in that I rely on the same God to give me life and substance.
You have always been such a good example to me of not judging others. Riley and I were just talking last night about how we really admire your ability to see past people's faults.
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