One of my gifts

Paul is on a roll. For the second time in two chapters he declares that his readers therefore have no excuse! 

First it was 1.20, and we come across it again in the first verse of chapter two.

No excuse, you who judge,  because you’re such a horrible hypocrite, doing the very things you tell others not to do!  C’mon guys, what’s up with you, you think you can sidestep the wrath of God?  You see He’s patient, and seems to pass over a lot of things, but really you are building a savings account of sins,  and it is all going to come back to bite you in the butt!  [MSV 2.3-5]

I, unfortunately, seem to have the “gift” of judging. So, I continuously remind myself what Jesus said in Matthew 7, verses 1-2:

Marcos, get it together. You like to judge? Fine, go ahead.  But remember, at the end of that road there will be judgement on you, and it will be with the same measuring stick you used for everyone else.

 So, that’s one gift I try to not unwrap.