Playing God….

Another simple but yet profound truth: self-righteousness is deciding (for yourself) if God’s commands apply to us or not. Why did Jesus oppose such people? Because they stepped into God’s role. As Christians our job is to be obedient to God’s Word, for it applies to all believers; no one is exempt from it. The next time you find yourself questioning God’s commands, or assigning failure to someone else’s slacking, you are being self-righteous (inappropriately judge-mental). There’s no room at the foot of the cross for playing God. It’s His job alone, and we are to honor that by knowing our place.

11 Don’t speak evil against each other, dear brothers and sisters. If you criticize and judge each other, then you are criticizing and judging God’s law. But your job is to obey the law, not to judge whether it applies to you. 12 God alone, who gave the law, is the Judge. He alone has the power to save or to destroy. So what right do you have to judge your neighbor? James 4:11-12