Daily In God: There is no condemnation like self-condemnation

Daily In God: There is no condemnation like self-condemnation:  DIG:Deeper In God👇   For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.  Joh...

There is no condemnation like self-condemnation

 DIG:Deeper In God👇  

For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.  John 3;17 (NKJV) 

I've been reviewing the scriptures from the Sunday church messages to recap and to gain further insight. I am finding the practice beneficial as it keeps the message alive all week, plus I gain further knowledge on the subject matter.   Reading the verse above, I couldn't help but reflect on the word CONDEMN, so I looked it up: 

"con·demn /kənˈdem/ verb

 1. express complete disapproval of, typically in public; censure. "fair-minded people declined to condemn her on mere suspicion"

> Similar: berate  censure criticize castigate attack denounce, and many more  

2. sentence (someone) to a particular punishment, especially death."  

Jesus did not come to CONDEMN the world (us), He came to save the world (us). Condemn is a mighty word, so we must therefore think carefully before using it, or any of it's cousins against others and ourselves. I was at a kitchen table discussion with some friends, three over sixty and two thirty-something males - all Christians at different stages of our Christian journey. It was quite an experience listening to one of the young men constantly using words of condemnation on himself, society, the church, every thing, while the other tried in futility to redirect the conversation to the opposite. I could only conclude that there is no condemnation like SELF CONDEMNATION!

Seeing that the WORD tells us that words have power, we create and also destroy by the words that come out of our mouths; we aught to use our words to build people up every chance we get.   

Have a tremendous Tuesday,  

Beverley