Series: He Said, She Said… But What Did God Say?
October 11, 2026 | Rev. Nicole Caldwell-Gross
"Only God can judge me."
The irony is that we usually reach for those words when it feels like we'e being judged by everybody except God.
Judged for a decision we made.
Judged for something in our past.
Judged for how we parent, how we live, what we believe, who we love, or who we are becoming.
And if we're honest, we haven't only been on the receiving end of judgment. We’ve given it too.
We make assumptions. We form opinions. We decide we know someone’s motives without ever knowing their story. Sometimes we call it discernment. Sometimes we call it “just telling the truth.” But judgment can come so naturally that we rarely stop to ask whether we were ever given the authority to make it in the first place.
The exact words “Only God can judge me” may not appear in the Bible, but Scripture has plenty to say about judgment—about God’s role, our role, and the difference between the two. In a world where everyone seems ready to render a verdict on somebody else, perhaps we need to remember who is actually qualified to hold the gavel—and what it means to follow Jesus in the way we see one another.
Series Information
Throughout this series, we'll examine some of the things we’ve heard, inherited, repeated, and perhaps even believed—and hold them alongside Scripture. Not because everything we’ve been taught is wrong. And certainly not because the people who taught us were trying to mislead us. But because our faith is too important to build on what he said or she said. We need to know what God says.
