Deuteronomy 25:3 Forty blows he may give him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these, and your brother be humiliated in your sight.

When does punishment turn from being fit for the crime into something that makes others despise the one being punished?

So many people look down on others just because they have been punished for doing something wrong. That’s called judging people!

If someone learns from their punishment they are quite capable of fitting back into society, maybe even more so than others!

Don’t allow people’s pasts to taint your love toward them – Christ showed us all His open love!

Luke 12:47 And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Jesus warns us about trying to pull the wool over His eyes in many places, and this is one of the places where punishment is described for those who do not follow!

If we call ourselves Christians or followers of Christ and do not do things according to God’s will, then we deserve to be beaten.

Can you imagine what the world would be like if there was such a harsh punishment dealt out for so many things in our lives?

I think many things would get sorted out a whole lot better!

1 Timothy 1:13 although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Jesus did not go round trying to blame everyone for doing anything wrong; instead He tried to come and look for the lost people and make them whole again!

Trying to blame other people when we are to blame ourselves is not going to help anyone. It will stop us from living our lives fully with God.

We end up doing what we can in the time we are given; and that is what God requires us first of all.

Live a full life with Christ and not half a good life without Him!