We tend to judge others.  We don’t like to admit it, but we make judgments about other people.  We don’t always speak those judgments out-loud, but we make them in our heart.  We do this with people we are close to, as well as people we’ve only observed briefly.  The truth is that what we judge in others is in fact often the very thing we dislike in ourselves.  Psychologists have known this for a long time – we tend to react to what we perceive as our own weaknesses.  This makes sense, because we are all guilty of breaking the same Law – God’s Law.  The challenge for us, James points out, is that there is only one Lawgiver – and therefore only one Judge.  God.