Legacy Christian Academy: Judgment Report

Our inherit sin nature leads us to be judgmental toward one another. We have all had to face that indescribable dropping feeling in the pit of our stomach when we are openly made fun of in front of a group of people. Legacy Christian Academy has taught me many things not regarding academics, but how I have learned to view others and myself. I realized over the 8 years I have attended Legacy Christian Academy, that everyone around me had similar characterizes and features, but I did not. My peers could not categorize my racial diversity so they placed me in the only category they knew before inquiring any information about me. Starting high school, I thought that all of the judgment I suffered in middle school would be left in the juvenile past of the people around me. However, I did not receive that luxury. Two months into what I thought to be a fresh beginning of high school someone declared me as being “black.” Even after people had gotten to know me, they judged me so heavily on my outer
Romans 2: 1-3 relates perfectly to all the overwhelming emotions going through me, “Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?” I used to dig on people constantly about the dumbest things regarding their appearances and their personalities. Although I would never have the courage to tell them to their faces what I actually thought of them, what if I had? What if I told them all the mean and hateful things I gossiped behind their backs and thought in my head? Those were the hard questions God placed in my head over the next few