Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.
I learn from this passage that I am supposed to judge other people. I know that the first word I heard was, “Stop!”. The second word, however, is “As you judge, so shall you be judged.” Perhaps the passage should say, “Judge others as God has judged you.”
This is how God has judged you and me. God has judged us as worthy of God’s forgiveness and mercy. God has sent the son into the world for the forgiveness of sins. If then, God has judged us worthy of being pardoned, then we have to judge others as worthy of being forgiven by us.
God considers our sins to be no bigger than the sting of a baby mosquito; they are easily forgiven. We consider other people’s transgressions against us to be as big as a mountain, whereas in reality they are less than a mole hill. It is our huge bad treatment of others that we consider of small value, but our bad treatment of others completely blinds us from the great size of our personal blindness. God’s bigness sees our large faults as mosquito bites to God while our littleness considers the insignificant sins against us as enormous.
We have to see as God sees, with compassion and understanding. We have to judge as God judges, for God judges each of us a worthy of being forgiven. As God has judged so should we judge, for the measure God gives us is the measure we have received and must pass on to others like us.