Judging VS. Imagination

Lately, I've been really thinking about how difficult it is to keep from judging people. Which is ironic since one of my biggest pet peeves is when people openly judge people without even knowing them very well, or even without meeting them.

See, a lot of times, I hear someone say something, or see them do something and I'll kind of start wondering why they said or did that, and think up different things that could be going on in their life because of that. 

Does that even make sense?

I guess what I'm asking is, am I judging that person? Or am I just too imaginative and let my mind get carried away? Once after thinking about a guy in my math class to much, I went from the possibility of him being an atheist, to gay, to vampire (not seriously of course lol), to a musician. I came to the conclusion that he was a gay atheist vampire who was a musician. Lol. Just kidding. 

Seriously though. I don't want to be a judging person. Because it's not my job to judge. That is God's job. And I say that quite often. So feeling like this, also makes me feel like a hypocrite because I'm saying one thing, but then doing another. 

Hypocrisy is another one of my big pet peeves. 

Hmmm. New thought. Maybe all my pet peeves are something that I need to work on myself.

Matthew 7:3-5
3"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. 

Reminds me of the time I was in dance class about 5 years ago. We were working on our recital dance. I went up to the teacher, Miss Debbie, and told her that I thought that my partner Mary needed to work on a certain move. Miss Debbie just looked at me, smiled, and quoted Matt. 7:3. I was kinda confused. She turned to the class and said we needed to do that part over again so that we could work on that move. "Especially Mary and Katie" She said. I'll always remember that.

I really hope I'm not a judgmental hypocrite. :(

I'll be praying about this one.