Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair.

We live in a world that is confused about what they want.

Have you ever heard someone say something like, you have no right to judge me.

It's not your place to tell me what to do.

Or stop being so close-minded and judgmental.

Let me live my own life.

See, we live in a world that says it wants no judgment from others. We want to be free to live

our own lives, make our own choices without the opinions and judgments of others. And yet, at the very

same time, we also tend to feel entitled to judge the people

around us, to cancel others when they make choices that we believe are wrong, to shame and point fingers at the political

others because what they believe is wrong. It seems we do not want to be judged, but we cannot

help but judge others whenever they are wrong.

But the problem is that we decide what is right and what is wrong

based off of whether something is different than what we believe.

We must be right.

So if they believe or do something different than us, then we can judge them.

But they better not judge us.

You see, our confusion on what we want,

whether to be free of judgment,

or to be able to cast judgment on others,

often stems from a faulty, prideful view of ourselves. It's the belief that I am right, that I know

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