D.L. Moody, one of America’s greatest evangelists, weighed a hefty 280 pounds. He once made a visit to Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the great preacher from London, England. When Spurgeon came to the door he had a cigar in his hand. Moody was taken aback and reportedly said to him, “How can a man of God like you smoke like that?”
Then Spurgeon poked him right in the stomach and said, “How can a man of God like you be that fat?”
We all have faults and weaknesses and we need to be less critical of each other. Abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher said, “Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which he buries the faults of his friends.” The scriptures warn, “If we bite and devour one another take heed that you consume not one another.” (Galatians 5:15) That’s Christian cannibalism.
Remember that every saint has a past, and every sinner can have a future. We need to spend more time edifying and less time classifying one another.