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“Look … on the things of others” (Phl 2:4).
A well-known Ohio judge was noted for his defense of slavery. He was converted from the error of his ways by the following conversation with a runaway slave, who had crossed the Ohio River from Kentucky:
Judge: “What did you run away for?”
Fugitive: “Well, judge, wanted to be free.”
“Oh! Wanted to be free, did you? Bad master, I suppose?”
“Oh, no; berry [very] good man, massa [master].”
“You had to work too hard, then?”
“Oh, no; fair day’s work.”
“Well, you hadn’t a good home?”
“Hadn’t I, though! You should see my pretty cabin in Kentucky!”
“Well, you didn’t get enough to eat?”
“Oh, golly! Not get enough to eat in Kentucky! Plenty to eat.”
“You had a good master, plenty to eat, were not overworked, a good home—I don’t see what you wanted to run away for.”
“Well, judge, I left de [the] situation down dar [there] open. You can just go down and git it.”
Christians will find it a healthy exercise to place themselves in the position of others before they pass judgment on them. The “one anothers” of the Epistle to the Romans will help to this end among Christians—to keep from wrong-doing on the one hand (Rom 14:13), and help to the right on the other hand (Rom 15:5).
Christ is not ashamed to call us brethren, therefore we should not be ashamed to own all whom He owns as Lord.
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