Today we consider judgment. The collect says that Jesus will
come in ‘his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead.” In the
Gospel of Mark, Jesus tells his disciples, “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.”(Matt. 7:1-2) This warning is stern if
we take it literally, isn’t it? “By your
standard of measure, it will be measured to you!”
We are reminded by the Oscar Wilde quote in the image that
none of us is perfect. In the movie Mary
Poppins, Mary has a tape measure that tells her about the children and when
she measures herself, she reads ‘practically perfect in every way’.
What is the tape measure of perfection that you judge others
(and even yourself) with?
