{"id":4838,"date":"2009-04-29T12:36:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T12:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/04\/a-brothers-wisdom-43.html"},"modified":"2009-04-29T12:36:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T12:36:27","slug":"a-brothers-wisdom-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/04\/a-brothers-wisdom-43.html","title":{"rendered":"A Brother’s Wisdom 43"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NorthStar.jpg\"<\/span>James 2:12-13 reads: “<\/span>Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, <\/span>because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment!”<\/p>\n

Sailors, so I’m told, use stars to guide them. The North Star has become the symbol of finding and being guided by an ultimate reference point.<\/p>\n

James urges the messianists to use — as their North Star — the reality of judgment on the basis of the law that gives freedom.<\/p>\n

The law that gives freedom — the Torah as understood by Jesus through the lens of loving God and loving your neighbor as yourself — is the final criterion that God will use in judging humans.<\/p>\n

Therefore, live in light of a judgment that will exact judgment on the basis of that law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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