Sometimes people react because of pressures and circumstances that are almost unbelievable. A person ought always to be slow to condemn someone else. What is the old Indian saying? “Never judge another man until you walk in his moccasins for a week.”
When Ezekiel was caught away in the Spirit, he had great criticisms. He had fiery sermons every Lord’s day; every Sabbath preaching wonderful sermons about the awful apostates in Babylon. They were forgetting to worship the Lord, forgetting the Torah; they weren’t worshiping as they should, so Ezekiel fired away at them. And then the Word says that the Spirit caught him up and took him down to the river Chebar, and he said, I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days. Ezekiel 3:15.
No sermons were preached that week, nothing. When you sit where the other fellow sits, suddenly it shuts your mouth, because you realize what the other man faces. What the other man faces may be so great that the things he is reacting to, his feelings, his actions can be put on another plane entirely. Blessed is the person that does not condemn, and the Lord helps them to see where the other person sits and minister to them. “Lord, help us to sit where they sit.” Amen.