Never judge anyone for anything! Judgment is the gravest, most foolish sin (passion). All who are not baptized by the Holy Spirit are equally sinful, sick, dead, godless. How can you judge your neighbor when you are suffering from the same disease (sin)? You simply have different symptoms, but the disease (godlessness, death) is the same for all, and all non-Christians need a Healer-Savior! (Christians do not judge anyone, they cannot judge! Christians love and have mercy on all because they know well that the Lord saved them not for good deeds, not for merits (which they do not have and cannot have), but by His mercy; therefore, being in the Truth, they do not consider themselves better than others, but fervently pray and care for everyone to be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth, for everyone to know God through the Holy Spirit!).
All people (the children of this age) are equally sick. The disease of all people (non-Christians) is the same – godlessness, lack of spirituality, sin, death, and the symptoms of this disease manifest differently in each person, in various combinations. (The children of this age – all are dead (“Let the dead bury their dead!”). A sad spectacle: the dead judging the dead for being dead!? One died of the flu, another – “as if alive,” and a third was torn apart by a mine… And the dead judge each other: one is like this, another like that, and I am not like other dead, I am “as if alive”: I have arms, legs… not like the one torn apart by a mine!? What’s the difference – all are equally dead! All are godless, spiritless, without Life, dead. All need a Savior, Healer, Resurrector, Life-giver, the Lord Jesus Christ!!!). Each of the children of this age has all passions (if there is a disease, then potentially there are all symptoms of this disease-sin of godlessness), just their manifestations (by the Wise Mercy of God) are different in each person. For someone, the dominant passion-symptom is power-lust, for someone else – fornication, for another – greed, and for someone else – alcoholism… These are all symptoms of the same disease – godlessness-death-pride-egoism. Thus, every person (of the Old Testament, non-Christian) has all the passions (love of glory, love of pleasure, love of money with their “children,” “grandchildren,” “great-grandchildren”), one of them is the main one, others are less manifested, and some passions are still waiting for an opportunity (conditions) to manifest themselves. But they are all, like seeds, in the human heart, some seeds have already sprouted and managed to grow into large trees (which are difficult to uproot), and some seeds-passions are waiting for favorable conditions. Therefore, this world is a large hospital where the seriously ill reside; all people are mortally ill with mortality-godlessness! In a hospital, the sick do not judge each other, but sympathize, (the suffering) understand the suffering (the healthy do not understand the sick, just as the full do not understand the hungry); the sick know what pain, suffering, weakness are! Therefore, in a hospital, the sick may have envy, anger, irritability… but not judgment! And if the sick in a hospital judge each other, then this is no longer an ordinary hospital, but a psychiatric one! Yes, yes, this world is not a simple hospital… Judgment is the greatest madness! And in this world, all people are chronically sick with judgment – everyone judges everyone for everything! This world is a great madhouse (where people are free, cut off from God), people who are not themselves, insane. Therefore, the beginning of repentance is to bring the insane person to their senses, to themselves, to consciousness, and then a long path of returning to the Father’s house follows (see the parable of the prodigal son – Luke 15:11-32). The one who judges is still insane, has not yet begun repentance. The sign of someone who is being catechized, repenting is the struggle against judgment, the vigilance over oneself to judge no one, and tearful repentance after judging someone for something, and humility-submission before this person!
At this point, we could end and move on to the next remedies-thoughts-truths. But since this passion is the most insane, the most dangerous, the most destructive, this chronic disease of humanity (which, judging, has gone even more insane, to such an extent that it can no longer comprehend even the simplest things of spiritual life), we will wander a bit in the desert of this thought-truth, so that at least someone, even a little, will understand it and begin to live by it (not to judge, but to love-have mercy). In our village, remedies-thoughts against judgment are very popular; our “grandmothers” judge everyone and everything so much that they have developed immunity to traditional remedies – familiar remedies-thoughts no longer help (do not move them), so our pharmacist invents and prepares new ones for them. So be patient (and do not judge us) – our “grandmothers” need everything chewed up for them, as they cannot think it through themselves (this is what insane passion does to the mind-reason), there must be quotes from Scripture, with repetitions-reminders… So, if you understand well at the nth kilometer that judging is complete madness, the greatest evil, and hate this sin, this passion – then do not judge! And do not read further, but move on to other thoughts-truths, for you might start judging us: how much can one babble the same thing… For our “grandmothers” even that is not enough! People in the last times have become very weak, so they need great mercy! (Again, we remind you that the task of fighting passions (which, as long as there is a disease, sin-godlessness, cannot be overcome-destroyed by definition) – is humility, the realization of one’s weakness, poverty, deformity, and the great mercy-love of God towards me, the greatest sinner. And the Lord “operates,” that is, saves-heals the humble believer in Jesus Christ – baptizes with the Holy Spirit. The Lord does not save-heal the sinless, healthy, but humble sinners (as an example – the good thief – see Luke 23:40-43). Again we remind you: The Law (with instructions on what to do and what not to do: do not commit (evil, sins, passions), but do (good, virtues)) is given to a person for one purpose – to help them realize their disease, that is, their death, that they are dead, godless, and to desire salvation, the Messiah, Christ the Savior. This is the essence of catechesis – for a person to realize themselves (their sin, death, hell), feel the need for salvation (wanting urgently to be saved from hell…) and believe in the only Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, to consciously give themselves, trust themselves (in a humble, submissive, merciful spirit) to the Lord!).