LET GOD JUDGE

“…shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” Gen 18:25

Life is a journey – that means the evaluation of it, if you are into that sort of thing, should come at the end. Right at the end, not somewhere in the beginning or somewhere in the middle.

Somewhere towards the end is acceptable; that’s taking stock of the state of things, which is a good thing. It can put you back on the right track should you have advertently or inadvertently swayed off it. It can also re-charge you and prime you for the next leg of the journey.

But evaluating your life, making that final analysis before you tally the score and present the verdict to yourself, well that should be kept for when the journey really is over. Many of the hurdles and obstacles that cropped up on your path and the times when you wandered off to where the grass looked greener, or when you took a wrong turn and ended up somewhere too sandy or too marshy that you kept sinking, well, those moments did not end the journey, so they are not the stop where you make the final analysis. They were just part of the journey. They marked the points where you learnt something that helped you move on.

A journey takes in the whole scope and drama of the travelling. You can only know how the traveller has been affected and changed by it at the end of the travelling. So do not be too hasty in judging yourself before you have reached your final destination. Take a break, look back, learn something, make a decision, and move forward. Let God be the judge of you. His perspective is perfect, unlike human perspective, which can be too wide or too narrow or too far or too near at all the wrong moments. Trust that God knows best how to judge because He knows just what to consider and what not to.