Judgment Day: What if God is Asking Us to Give Up Judgment?

For many people, the words Judgment Day carry images of standing before God as every mistake, failure, and wrongdoing is examined, and a final determination is made about our worthiness. Years ago, Archangel Michael gave me a very different understanding of September 14 as Judgment Day. Rather than a day when God sits in judgment of us, I was told it is a day for us to give up judgment. That distinction matters, especially now.

We live in a world where judgment has become almost constant. People judge themselves, their families, their bodies, their choices, their pasts, their governments, their religions, their neighbors, and complete strangers. Social media has given judgment an enormous stage, while political and cultural divisions have made condemning those on the other side seem almost virtuous. Yet judgment and discernment are not the same thing.

Discernment allows us to recognize what is true, what is healthy, what is harmful, and what requires change. We can establish boundaries, hold people accountable, address injustice, leave harmful situations, and acknowledge wrongdoing without placing ourselves spiritually above or below another person. Judgment adds condemnation, superiority, inferiority, blame, shame, or the belief that another person must change before peace can exist within us.

As I prepared for this year's Judgment Day, I asked God for a deeper understanding of why releasing judgment matters so much. I was particularly interested in its relationship to karma because karma itself is often misunderstood as punishment.

What I received gave me another way of looking at both.

A Message from God

Why Judgment Causes Karma? 

I have heard people’s pleas for peace, but they will find none when sitting in judgment of what is, who they are, what they have come to believe about me, themselves, and others.

Discernment is key to survival and evolution. Judgment puts oneself above or below others and opens the door for comparison and retribution. 

I am feared for judgment day. People fear going to hell. The fear of the future limits their full self-expression. 

No one is as hard on them as they are on themselves. 

In their souls, they know what they have done wrong, whether it was intentional or unintentional. When they judge themselves, they diminish the possibilities of the present and potential future. 

The karma that is created is those diminished results. 

Abuse often stems from the beliefs of unworthiness that lie within the soul and subconscious. The experience of abuse often comes from the torment left unhealed, caused by self-judgment, whether from this life or another.

When you are brave and can look yourself square in the eye and forgive yourself, you heal and can return to love.

When you judge others, you make them wrong and see only the surface of what happened. This is never about excusing bad behavior. But when you judge others, you are diminishing the role you had in the dynamics unfolding before you.

Many sit on their high horse, thinking they are better than those they sit in judgment of.  What they often miss is the part they have played in the dynamic they witness and judge.

People forget that I see and know everything. The most common judgment I see these days happens publicly in the political arena. They battle it out in the media, social media, and in conversation, sounding knowledgeable about their opinions of others and how something should be - how others should be. 

Their arrogance shows an ego at play, overlooking their own past errors when they held roles similar to those they judge.

What part have you played in similar dynamics? Did you give your power away to others, or did you overpower others?

Many think they want peace, and yet they can’t find it within themselves because they can’t forgive themselves or others. Those who judge others are still judging themselves. They haven’t forgiven themselves for similar errors. 

I recommend that when you find fault in another, start by looking within yourself first and healing where you made a similar error or where you contributed to the dynamic in some way on a larger scale. Your past holds many answers hidden within your subconscious about where you chose a path that diminished results. Those diminished results are often what you now suffer. And yet you blame what you see others choosing or doing as the place of error. You think someone else fixing their behavior is the answer when the key is what they triggered within to heal within.

Some of you are called to fix things on a larger scale. Everyone is called to fix the errors within. 

If you wish to see the world show up better, look within and rectify the imbalances there. When you want more peace in the world, find what has caused the dismay within and rectify that. If you want better results in your own life, find the fault within and rectify it there.

This isn’t about judging or blaming you. It is about bringing light to where you are in denial, and power to where possibility truly lies. It returns responsibility to where potential for change matters most - within.

When you look outside yourself and judge without looking within, you deny your true potential to make a difference. 

Clean up the errors within, and you return to balance, peace, and love. 

Blame others, and you perpetuate and increase the problem, delaying the rectification of a situation you have the power to change from within.

You have free will to align with the highest truth, face it, and rectify it to create new outcomes that serve you and the world better, or you can be arrogant, play victim, and cause yourself and others suffering longer. The choice is yours.

What Stood Out to Me

One sentence particularly caught my attention:

"The karma that is created is those diminished results."

That is quite different from seeing karma as God punishing us for something we have done wrong.

What I hear in this message is that judgment itself can keep an imbalance alive. If guilt, shame, resentment, blame, superiority, inferiority, or unforgiveness remains unresolved, it continues influencing how we think, choose, react, relate, and create. The consequences may continue, not because God has decided we deserve punishment, but because the underlying condition producing them has not yet been healed.

This also sheds light on why self-forgiveness can be so important. We may consciously want a better future while subconsciously continuing to punish ourselves for something that happened years ago or, from a spiritual perspective, perhaps even in another lifetime. If some part of us still believes we are guilty, unworthy, undeserving, unsafe, or deserving of punishment, those beliefs can diminish what we allow ourselves to receive and experience.

The same principle applies when we judge others. Someone may genuinely have behaved badly. Recognizing that does not require us to excuse it or remain in harm's way. Yet if another person's behavior fills us with ongoing rage, superiority, blame, or condemnation, something in our own history may be asking to be healed as well.

That does not mean we caused every circumstance we experience or that someone suffering abuse should be blamed for what happened to them. Responsibility for harmful behavior belongs to the person who chose it. Healing asks a different question: What remains within me now that needs care, release, understanding, forgiveness, or restoration so this experience no longer controls my future?

Taking responsibility for what we can heal is not the same as accepting blame for everything that has happened. It is recognizing where our power exists now.

We Also Judge What Is

Another part of God's message that stood out to me was the reference to sitting in judgment of what is.

We do not only judge ourselves and other people. We judge our circumstances. We decide our life should look different, our body should be different, our finances should be further along, our relationship should have worked out another way, our family should behave differently, our career should be more successful, or the world should not be experiencing what it is experiencing.

Sometimes those observations are useful because they help us recognize what we want to change. The suffering often increases when discernment turns into condemnation of the present moment.

We can become angry with our age, our past, our health, our bank account, the choices we made years ago, opportunities we believe we missed, or circumstances we never wanted in the first place. Beneath those reactions can be an ongoing argument with reality itself: This should not have happened. I should not be here. My life should be different by now.

Wanting improvement is not the problem. Neither is taking action to create something better. The question is whether we can acknowledge where we are without making ourselves, God, someone else, or life itself wrong for the fact that this is what exists today.

When we continually condemn the present, we may overlook what it is trying to reveal. There may be an old wound asking to be healed, a belief ready to be released, a pattern needing to end, a truth we have been avoiding, or a new choice waiting to be made.

Acceptance does not mean resignation. It simply allows us to stop fighting what already exists long enough to see it clearly.

From there, change can come from greater clarity rather than judgment.

An Invitation for Judgment Day

Perhaps September 14 does not need to be a day of fearing God's judgment at all. Maybe it can become a day of noticing how much judgment we have been carrying ourselves, often without realizing how deeply it has affected our peace, relationships, choices, health, prosperity, spiritual growth, and experience of life.

When you catch yourself judging someone, yourself, or a circumstance, you might ask what the situation is triggering within you. Where have you made a similar mistake, perhaps in a different form? What are you still unwilling to forgive in yourself? Where might you be comparing, condemning, blaming, or making someone else responsible for your peace?

You might also notice where you are judging your life simply because it does not currently look the way you want it to. Is the situation calling for discernment and action, or have frustration, disappointment, and judgment become intertwined with what you see?

These questions are not meant to create more self-judgment. They are meant to help uncover what has remained hidden so it can finally be addressed.

You do not have to approve of everything to release judgment. Nor do you have to abandon wisdom, discernment, boundaries, accountability, or justice. What you can relinquish is the burden of condemnation and the unresolved energy that keeps you tied to what happened or to what you believe should have happened instead.

Join Me for a Special Judgment Day Clearing

Because judgment can operate on so many levels, including those we may not consciously recognize, I am holding a special Judgment Day clearing on September 14 to help us address it more deeply.

We will look beyond the obvious judgments we make about other people and begin clearing the judgments held against ourselves, our bodies, our choices, our mistakes, our families, relationships, circumstances, God, the world, and the experiences we have carried from our past. We will also address some of the deeper patterns of blame, shame, condemnation, unforgiveness, comparison, guilt, resentment, superiority, inferiority, self-punishment, and resistance to what is, that can continue operating beneath the surface.

This is not about making ourselves wrong for having judged. Doing that would simply create another layer of judgment.

The purpose is to bring what has been hidden into the light, clear what we are ready to release, forgive where forgiveness is needed, and restore greater peace and balance within ourselves.

If God's message above is correct that the karma created through judgment can become the diminished results we experience, then releasing judgment is about much more than becoming a kinder person. It may free us from patterns that have continued to limit what we can experience and create.

I invite you to join me on the evening of September 14 for this special Judgment Day experience.

Learn more and register here:
https://session.joyofspirituality.com/judgment-day

There may be considerable freedom in discovering that Judgment Day is not about God waiting to punish us.

It may instead be an opportunity to stop punishing ourselves, one another, and even the life we are currently living.

As judgment releases, we have more room to see clearly, take responsibility for what is ours, forgive what has remained unresolved, make wiser choices, and create from a place of greater peace, truth, and love.

Perhaps that is one of the greatest gifts Judgment Day can offer us.