“Be
honest in your judgment and do not decide at a glance (superficially and
by appearances); but judge fairly and righteously.”
Dear people of God, many years ago as a Youth Corper in the
Northern part of Nigeria, I was working on a construction site in a village far
from the city where 2 trucks were used to convey site workers to and fro the
city while I usually followed my boss in his vehicle.
One day, one of the trucks broke down and couldn’t be fixed
before closing time and so my boss stayed behind and asked me to use his
vehicle to convey some site workers to town and return to convey more people
until the one remaining truck could convey all other staff.
It so happened that as I was returning back to site from the
first trip, the fuel in the vehicle finished and the vehicle shut down. This
was before the mobile telephone came into Nigeria and so I was unable to reach
my boss and he was also wondering why I had not returned.
After waiting for some time, I saw the other truck approaching
with my boss in it and when he got to where his vehicle had shut down, he came
down to enquire what transpired.
As soon as I told him the fuel ran out, he became upset and
retorted, “why did you not tell me you were broke instead of taking the fuel
from the vehicle?”
I was both thoroughly embarrassed and upset but I kept quiet.
This incident pained me so much that I shed tears when I got to my room at the
Corpers’ lodge and prayed that night that God should vindicate me of the false
accusation.
The very next day when my boss came to pick me from the Corpers’
lodge to work, he told me his mechanic had worked on the vehicle that previous
day but did not fix the hose to the fuel filter properly and he later
discovered that was where the fuel was leaking from that resulted in the
vehicle shutting down when fuel was exhausted.
Though My boss never apologised to me for the false accusation, I
thank God Almighty Who vindicated me from a false accusation and revealed what
really transpired.
As it would turn out, this same boss of mine months later was
apprehended by the company for diverting building materials (cement, granite
and sand) from the company’s construction site to his personal building
project.
Again, the company thought I was involved in this malfeasance and
so I was transferred to another construction site while my boss was redeployed
to the office as investigation was ongoing. Once again God Almighty and Father
of my Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ vindicated me as I was cleared of any
wrongdoing.
It is unfortunate and very sad that my boss who once falsely
accused me of theft was engaged in big time theft from his own employer.
What is the lesson here?
If you have a genuine relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ in
righteous living (uncompromising obedience to His commands in the Holy Bible),
Jesus would always vindicate you of any false accusation from any quarters
because you belong to him.
If you do not have a genuine relationship with the Lord but you
profess His Name as your Saviour but you are engaged in wrongdoing, you would
eventually be found out in a matter of time.
It is even worse when you are someone who accuses others of
wrongdoing that you are also engaged in.
I also recall in the same company the Financial Controller who
was employed to come and check theft was always harassing staff and viewing
their transactions with suspicion, but it turns out that he was later
discovered to be stealing company funds.
There is a saying that he who comes to equity must come with
clean hands.
As you can see from today’s main Holy Bible text, and contrary
to the claims by people who enjoy wrongdoing and don’t want anyone to correct
them, the Lord Jesus Christ never said we should not judge others, but that we
should be honest with our judgement and we should judge fairly and righteously.
This means you should make sure you are not guilty of the same
offence you are accusing others of because you are judging yourself before God
and it would be terrible for you if you do not repent immediately, ask God for
forgiveness, amend your ways and begin to live in righteous obedience to God’s
commands in the Holy Bible.
Jesus’ coming for His children in the Rapture is imminent. Are
you His child or are you born again? Are you ready for Him?
Come to Jesus Christ the Word of God today and now, for tomorrow
or later may be too late for you.
May the good Lord bless you as you heed
His Word today, act on it and share with others in Jesus’ Merciful Name, Amen.
Gabriel Ama.