In the middle of an excellent series on The Sermon on the Mount at church, I had these thoughts as we considered the opening of Matthew 7 regarding judging each other and the oft-quoted "don't give the sacred to dogs or cast pearls before swine".
Judgment is a sacred prerogative of God's that cannot be turned over to dogs and pigs. Dogs and pigs do not comprehend the value and meaning of judgment in the whole with the companion values of grace, mercy and righteous that are the provenance of the Kingdom of God. God has neither requested nor required us to judge until the day the Kingdom is revealed in its fullness, all is known, and the riches of God are manifest for all to enjoy or to reject. Only in that day will judgment be possible. Only in that day will the full sting of condemnation and full satisfaction of reward be felt and possibly justified. Only in that day will mercy and truth meet together and righteousness and peace kiss. If we are given the prerogative of judgment prematurely, we will ourselves turn on God and ravage Him for His judgments because they do not reflect our own.
