Polite Has Limits

Psalm 15:4 (KJV) In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

(Proverbs 15 also read)

I think there’s a thought here that we find troubling.  We are commanded to hold evil people in contempt.  We are so immersed in the concepts of courtesy and politeness that we don’t like to show this kind of thing.  We confuse clear thinking and clear vision with being judgmental.  No.  Being judgmental is when you condemn someone else for doing what you do.  Being judgmental has an element of hypocrisy.

Here God is calling for discernment.  Evil is evil.  We need to be careful not to call it good or even to call it neutral.  Abortion clinics have no place in a culture that values life.  That is just an obvious example.  If you have loansharks that are taking advantage of poor people, that would fall in the same category.

So?  Read your Bible and find out what righteousness is.  Find out what integrity is.  Understand what it means to walk in an upright manner.  Apply that to your own lives and to the lives of others.  Be discerning.