YOU ARE A COURT JUDGE

“Therefore thus saith the LORD, if thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth.”
(Jeremiah 15:19)

Many people today belong to the “tolerant” church. They believe they must be tolerant of all things and never judge. This is ridiculous. We all judge every day. If we didn’t judge between right and wrong, we wouldn’t even know how to live properly—individually, in our families, or in this world.

Have you read 1 Corinthians 6:2, 3? “Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the SMALLEST matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more things that PERTAIN TO THIS LIFE?”

Aren’t these amazing words? Dear mother, this word tells you that you are going to judge the world. And even angels! But don’t wait until them. You must also judge the things that pertain to this life. Even the SMALLEST matters. This gets right down to the nitty gritty of mothering in your home. Every day you judge matters with your children. In fact, you are a court judge!

Motherhood is a powerful career. It is not easy to be a judge. We need wisdom from God for every matter, even the smallest matters. We often judge wrongly and make wrong decisions. But as you seek God daily for His wisdom, He will give it to you liberally (James 1:5-8).

In Jeremiah 9:24 God says: “I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment (justice), and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.” God is fully all lovingkindness, all justice, and all righteousness at the same time. We find it hard to exercise these attributes together, don’t we? Either we are too merciful or too judgmental. But as we seek God, He will help us. As we cry out to Him, He will pour out His Spirit upon us and teach us how to judge correctly.

God says of Abraham in Genesis 18:19: “For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment.” Our children will not learn to walk in justice and judgment unless we teach them the way of justice and righteousness. This means teaching and training them daily in even the smallest matters of their lives. Small matters eventually become big matters.

We cannot teach them unless we judge between right and wrong, the clean and the unclean, righteousness and evil, truth and lies. God wants us to teach our children the difference between the clean and the unclean. We cannot have shady areas. They must know what is right and what is wrong.

Leviticus 10:10: “That ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them . . .:”

Ezekiel 44:23: “And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean,”

It’s time for children to know the difference. In our deceived world today they must know the difference between male and female. They must know that God has uniquely made them different, and they must embrace their difference. Young men must never be feminine. They must be brave and courageous and protecting of the weaker sex. They must know how to “play the man.” They must learn how to do men’s work. Our young women must not be masculine. We must teach them to embrace their womanhood and their femininity. To act and speak and dress femininely.

No wonder the Bible commands us to “flee fornication.” We teach our children to run from any situations where they could be tempted sexually. They must not live near the edge. When God told the Israelites to leave Egypt, He told them they must have a “three-day gap” between Egypt and where God told them to sacrifice. Teach your children in every area ot not to live near the edge of Egypt but to make a “three-day gap.”

Mother, please do not underestimate your high calling to judge your children and to teach them justice, discernment, and righteousness. Teach them that they must continually judge every day between good and evil, the clean and the unclean.

Cry out to God for wisdom daily. Ask God for wisdom in judging even the SMALLEST matters. In this way, you will not only train your children in righteousness, but you will be practicing for the future when you will judge the world and angels.

Be blessed, Nancy Campbell

ww.aboverubies.org

PRAYER:

“I thank You, Father, that you are the true Judge of all the earth. You only know how to judge truly. Please help me. Please give me wisdom to understand the truth, to have Your discernment, and to judge my children righteously and according to Your word and Your absolute truths. Amen.”

AFFIRMATION:

I am learning to judge my children according to the absolute truth of God’s Wotd, not by the standards of this present deceived world!