Today’s Thought “Protective Big Brother” G. Ward James 4 11 Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12 There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another? While many perceive judging another as not permitted, one will need to defer to the actuality of God’s Word and realize that each day embraces judgment from morning to night (cf. Matt.7:1-5, 1 Cor.6:1-3). There is however a condemnation unto others that disparages another suffering with sin’s sickness (including small and great consideration therein), while the one entirely critical forgot the time mercy found them. The passage aforementioned exists for believers, that we’d understand the magnitude in spiritual forbearance unto each brother in the Lord; to protect and serve them – that the wall of faith personified would attract those feeling periodic miseries to view a place of rest exemplified in a few called Christian. Will you be available to extend to another the mercy shared with you?