WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE ANOTHER? (James 4:11-12)

WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE ANOTHER? (James 4:11-12) The "royal law" of love says that we should love our neighbor as ourselves. To speak evil against a brother, or to judge his motives, is the same as speaking against this "law" and condemning it as worthless. To break a law deliberately is to treat it with disrespect and contempt. It is the same as saying that the law is not good and not worthy of obedience. "He who refuses obedience virtually says it ought not to be law." Now this puts the one "who speaks evil of a brother" in the strange position of being a "judge" rather than one who is to be judged. He sets himself up as being superior to the law rather than subject to it. Only God is superior to the law. He is the One who gave it and the One who judges by it. Who then has the audacity to usurp the place of God and judge another?