What about buying a car can teach us about Judging others

I remember many years ago I was looking for a new truck and I stop by a local dealership to look at a truck. If you have ever been car shopping you know as soon as you get out of your car here comes a sales person. However, this day no one walked out to see if I needed any help. You see on this day I was driving a semi-truck moving some heavy equipment from one job site to another. I was dressed in jeans and old shirt and a ball cap on. Let’s just say it looked like I had been rolling around in the dirt for a month. As I walked around looking at the trucks not one person came out to see me.  I finally walked into the dealership and there stood all the sales people. I walked up to one and asked about a specific truck that I was looking at. The sales person answered my questions but did not give me the time of day. He then walked away to go talk to another person who had entered the lot.  
After my lack of customer services, I got back in my semi and drove off. This bothered me all day because I knew he was judging me based on what he saw me driving and the way I was dressed. I can remember just how little it made me feel! Like a person with no worth at all. So, when I got off work I went home got a shower and changed clothes and went back the dealership. When I pulled up in my personal truck and with a cleaned-up attire, yep you guessed it I had my pickings of the sales people on the lot. However, me being me I went back to the guy I talked with earlier that day. Guess who had all the time in the world for me now. You guessed it. 
This situation reminds me how easy it is to judge others. You can see how a person acts, the clothes they wear, or even the friends they have and put that person into a box. We write certain people off because of how they treated us, or how we perceive them. However, just like the sales person was wrong about me not being able to afford the truck, many times, our judgements of people can be wrong.
By judging others, we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The other thing about judging others is that it cheapens the price Jesus paid for mankind. Jesus gave his life for all humanity. That means each person has value to God. From the most popular to the least popular, each person matters to God. Because each person matters so much to God, when we judge others we cheapen the price God paid for each person.
So, the next time you’re tempted to pass judgement on someone. To look down on them for what they wear, the color of their skin, their sexuality, or how they act remember that they are important to God. He loves them and wants them to have the chance to get to know Him. So, the next time you’re tempted to judge someone, use it as an excuse to share God’s love with that person instead of judging them.
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