People are to be judged by their actions. We sometimes hear it said, “His conduct is bad but at heart he means well”; but this is nonsense. In the old-fashioned phrase, “handsome is as handsome does.”
The bad-tempered person cannot possibly have a “heart of gold” as is sometimes charitably sa id. A bad-tempered person has a mean, selfish heart and should get busy and change it without delay.
One who loves does not seek his own advantage. Love acts the part, and anything else is hypocrisy.
…be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you (Ephesians 4:32).
While we are not to judge and condemn others, we do have to make judgements daily about others motives. We are instructed not to cast our pearls before the swine and not to give that which is holy unto to dogs. That does not relieve us of the responsibility to love and forgive even the most mean-spirited or selfish among us. It is simply to help inform our decisions in order to shape our actio ns. If we are to surround ourselves with holy, loving and selfless people that lift us up and to avoid those which bring us down, we must first know the difference.
Choosing holiness,
Z Gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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