Sing like a bird

I was reading an article about tweets, you know the social media phenomenon, and about how it ruins people’s lives.  The story was how tweets or statements, although not necessarily intended to be harmful by the person who said them, is taken that way and the orator or author is seen as a racist, or bigot or anti feminist or any of a number of badges of dishonor by others.  The damage starts when these “others” feel that they have the moral responsibility and ethical aptitude to judge and destroy the tweeter. Someone tweets something which may be offensive to others, often as a joke, and the person who tweeted the message often gets “shamed.”  Some type of justified revenge is taken out on this person, often for no reason other than to prop up the righteous, superior feeling of the “shamers” and to justify their own moral inferiority.  Yes some people may deserve the shame they receive and the hurt and sorrow that may follow as a badge they wear around their neck.  I can only hope and pray that these “shamed” experience the wonder and awe of God in those moments of depression and humiliation because that is the only tweeter that can rescue you.  Judgment is for God alone.  He judges you and me and He alone can heal you or punish you.  As for the indignant, morally superior, you will get your just reward.  Judge not lest you be judged.