A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shops, bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop.
She was engrossed in her book but happened to see, that the man sitting beside her, as bold as could be. . .grabbed a cookie or two from the bag in between, which she tried to ignore to avoid a scene.
So she munched the cookies and watched the clock, as the gutsy cookie thief diminished her stock. She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by, thinking, “If I wasn’t so nice, I would blacken his eye.”
With each cookie she took, he took one too, when only one was left, she wondered what he would do. With a smile on his face, and a nervous laugh, he took the last cookie and broke it in half.
He offered her half, as he ate the other, she snatched it from him and thought… oooh, brother. This guy has some nerve and he’s also rude, why he didn’t even show any gratitude!
She had never known when she had been so galled, and sighed with relief when her flight was called. She gathered her belongings and headed to the gate, refusing to look back at the thieving ingrate.
She boarded the plane, and sank in her seat, then she sought her book, which was almost complete. As she reached in her baggage, she gasped with surprise, there was her bag of cookies, in front of her eyes.
If mine are here, she moaned in despair, the others were his, and he tried to share. Too late to apologize, she realized with grief, that she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief.
By Valerie Cox in “A Matter of Perspective”
Submitted by Tom “The Colonel” Parker
Submitted by Tom “The Colonel” Parker
How many times do we judge someone without even knowing the situation?
We can't look at someone's clothes, car, home, etc and label them. By the outside appearance we are not able to tell anything about a person for sure. We can merely guess and make assumptions. The only righteous judgement that we have is that of God which comes from the Bible alone. The Bible is the only standard which we are justified in holding anyone to and even still, it is only God that knows the heart. So be careful when you begin to judge, because you are too being judge by the greatest Judge of all- Jesus Christ.
John 7:[24] Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
See, the woman in the story was judging that man the whole time when in reality it was herself that had the problem. In order to avoid even making a wrong assumption and ending up looking like a fool, she could have simply shared what she thought were her cookies to begin with and clear up the misunderstanding that they weren't hers, in fact, to share. Be giving, be loving, be understanding.. don't be judgmental.
-Destiny Turner
Good reminder that things are not always as they appear. :)
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