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| Christlike Compassion |
Before His death, Jesus Christ established His Church in the middle east as recorded in the Bible. After He died for our sins and was Resurrected from the dead, He appeared to the people in the Americas and established His church there. The Book of Mormon, which tells the history of God’s people in the Americas, shows Jesus taught those people the same truths He taught the people around Jerusalem.
One such example is the principle of not judging others. Both the Bible and the Book of Mormon record Jesus’s teachings on leaving judgement to God, who knows us perfectly, with a warning in the Book of Mormon that “with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged” (see 3rd Nephi 14:2).
The Bible tells a story of woman who was caught in the act of adultery—the serious sin of having a sexual relationship with someone who was not her husband. The law of Moses, which the Jewish nation lived at the time, called for her to be stoned to death. However, when the woman was brought before Jesus, he simply told the crowd that “He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her” (John 8:7). And the crowd went away one by one, leaving the Savior— the only one present who would have the true authority to judge a person’s heart after He suffered and died for our sins — to speak with the woman.
Sometimes being more like Jesus can be difficult, but missionaries can help you draw closer to Jesus. |
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| The Mote and the Beam |
Jesus compared our natural tendency to judge unrighteously with a person who sees their neighbor has a mote—or a tiny sliver—in their eye while not realizing they have a large beam of wood in their own eye.
Luke 6: 42 in the Bible says, “…how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thing own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.”
Consider what the “beam in your eye” is and how you can address it rather than focusing on criticizing those around you. |
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