Lets talk about perceiving people and judging them a little bit... =)

Perceiving people and Judging them.

Another aspect of human nature is the tendency to evaluate and judge people.
Consider the following situation.

Adam is a perfectionist. He expects only perfection and nothing less from himself and also from others. When he expected 100% from himself then he expected it also from others.
However, when he was able to accept that it was OK for him to make mistakes, then he became more tolerant of other people's mistakes. Driving became more of a pleasure for him after he became more tolerant of the poor skills of other drivers.

It seems more than likely that there are many other people who would be more tolerant of others if they became more tolerant of themselves.

The Pharisees that Jesus compared to poisonous snakes and rotting corpses maintained VERY high standards.

I suspect that in fact they managed to keep their own rules of cleanliness, of giving
precisely one tenth of their income to the temple and so on. People with money and power and time can manage this if they put their minds to it.

But it is clear that they made other people's lives a misery by insisting on that same "100% or you are a miserable sinner" rule for others. Sometimes we need to understand that some people are just different from us. If you are an introvert, you can't be expecting everyone in this world to be an introvert as well. The same goes if you're an extrovert. Before you judge or evaluate anyone's actions, always began with trying to understand the reason and the purpose of the actions and evaluate what were the cause of the actions.

The world would indeed be a much pleasent place to live in if everyone were to walk around with this mentality. It is okay to judge people, but it is not okay to judge people wrongly and throw unfounded and unreasonable accusations around.

A big part of the New Testament message concerns the battle between: "It is not OK to fail! Pharisees rule OK!" and "It's OK to fail ... God loves you still!"

Today that battle is between those perfectionists who criticise failure in everyone and those who more realistically and happily accept that some failures are inevitable.


- A perfectionist is someone who consumes and generates pains and then proceeds to infect them unto others -