My husband and I volunteered for a food distribution event for needy families. We helped to create bags of food as families drove up and received much needed food to feed their families. Towards the end of the event, we took a break and sat on a curb as the last few cars received food. My husband noticed that one of the cars was a Tesla. He has a few friends with Teslas and he is aware that they are very expensive cars. He found it disconcerting that someone who drove a Tesla would need food assistance. I agreed with him, but I stopped him and said that he really couldn’t make any judgements. After all, you really can’t know anything about a person, or their life circumstances just based on the type of car that they drive.
For me, it was a great lesson in my idea of not comparing my life to anyone else’s life. I’ll can’t ever know what is going on in some else’s life. I have no right to judge them or even comment on how they live their life. I don’t know anything about it. God teaches me to love others as I would myself. I would want other people to accept me as I am, to not judge me, or comment on how I live my life, especially because they don’t know me. So, whenever I see someone else, I think I should reserve any judgement and instead be willing to approach them with love and try to see the light of God within them as long as they aren’t trying to hurt me or my loved ones.
As I write this, I just realized that in almost every part of the Internet and social media, we are encouraged to believe that we should comment on other peoples lives. It’s the sin of pride to believe that we know better than others about their own life. The only person who really knows my life and has the right to judge me is my God.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
