In judging situations, the government, people in office, people that are over us, each other, and ourselves, we need to remember that we are also sinners and have to repent of our own actions; and we should have compassion on them and pray for them. When we focus on correcting our own sins and deepening our relationship with God, then we will have an attitude of humility and then we will start to judge others correctly from the Word of God, the Bible. We should constantly be examining our own hearts and our own actions, asking God for help in rooting out sin in our lives. When He reveals it to us, we need to get it out of our lives. We need Him to help us get it out of our lives. We all have things in our lives that are wrong according to God's laws. When God shows us what is wrong, we then need to repent and make the necessary changes that we should make in our lives. These verses are telling us that we must be careful and very cautious when we judge and our judging must be out of love; and most of our judging must be upon ourselves, not on the brethren. We as God's people really struggle to judge ourselves correctly. We should be judging what is going on, brethren, and we should be making changes in our lives and we should be trying to get as close as we can get to God. But we do not do that. We do not judge ourselves. You know, if we are gossiping, we kind of continue to gossip. You know, if we keep some of the pagan holidays, things like birthdays and New Year's, because a number of people in God's church do, we continue to do that. Those things are just as bad as Christmas, Easter, and Halloween. See, we do not make changes in our lives. Do you know what we all should be doing? We should be judging all things righteously from the Word of God, and the number one thing we should be judging is ourselves. What we should be judging every minute of every day is ourselves, mostly, and where we stand with God in how we live and act according to God's Word and to the Bible. Our judging must be very balanced and it always must be out of love. We know that we should be very hard on ourselves and we should be making major changes in our lives every day. Number one, we must judge situations, our government, the world and its ways, each other, and most of all ourselves all the time.