We are apt to judge everything from the narrow viewpoint of human limitations, making comparisons on the basis of fallible personal superiority or of some authority which we or someone else may have. But such judgments are worthless. God knows nothing of human measurements; He is divine Love. He judges according to the infinitude of good. Thus He sees only beauty, goodness, kindness, harmony, intelligence, health, joy, and perfection everywhere. Christian Science teaches us that God beholds all that really is.
Why should the creator make comparisons between persons, things, or places? He beholds! And what He sees is the unfoldment of an infinite variety of harmonious ideas which are endowed with all necessary qualities. God cannot have a sense of superiority or inferiority, for He is eternally conscious of His own allness. He knows no envy, fear, or doubt, for He is at once the substance of all good and the source of all abundance. There is certainly nothing to criticize in a work which is an act of divine Love. God knows only reaty, comprehends only universal harmony, and lovingly governs all; nothing is outside of His infallible control.
Mortal mind, however, likes to judge, compare, condemn, blame, criticize, and slander. Christ Jesus warned against this fault when he said (Matt. 7:1-3:) "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" The fault (mote) which we look for in our neighbor perhaps indicates our own sense of malicious criticism (beam) and a lack of personal vigilance as to our own character.
