It brings to mind a question: Do you scrutinize your own self as much as you scrutinize presidential candidates? Now, I'm all in on the idea that there is something to being 'presidential.' The leader of the free world ought to have a higher standard than us, the common women and men. But what does it say about us when we are willing to judge another of God's children with different measures than we judge ourselves.
- Do we verify our facts before speaking statistics or news? Where did we get those facts? Is the source reputable?
- Do we ever change our minds about important issues? I'm amazed at how many 10+ year old videos we've seen of Donald and Hillary. Have you changed your mind in the last 10 years about something with which you had great conviction?
- Do we judge our fashion and grooming sense when we are in public with the same eye we see candidates? (We won't talk about what we wore to Walmart).
- Do we ever say something mean-spirited?
- Do we ever stammer?
- Did we ever do something that was against the rules?
Let's face it. We've got a couple of candidates that are far from perfect. Come to think of it, we've got about 6-7 billion people on the planet that are far from perfect. Yes, yes, yes. We ought to hold leaders to extremely high standards. But...Jesus said something about the idea that we'll be judged by the same measure we judge others. That ought to terrify us because we are anything but kind when we talk about the candidate we don't like.
It's just something I've thought about. What our country needs isn't necessarily politicians that hold themselves to a higher standard. What our country needs is citizens that hold themselves to a higher standard. For those that call themselves Christians, that higher standard is Jesus. We'd all do well to judge ourselves first and foremost.
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