“Do not be too eager to deal out death and judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."

This quote was one that stuck out to me, watching Lord of the Rings a few days ago. How many times are we so eager to judge people? To think down upon them? And as we watch the Fellowship of the Ring, we all know very well that Gollum still ends up bad in the end. He's too far gone. Isn't that also true with some people? So why did Gandalf stop Frodo?

Maybe Gandalf knew it maybe he didn't, but in the end, Frodo knew how Gollum felt about the ring and he knew why Gollum felt that way. The ring had taken hold of the both of them and it's grasp was never relenting. It controlled there minds, their very thoughts until they just wanted one thing--the ring itself.

But Frodo still tried. "I'm going to destroy it Gollum, for both our sakes."

We must realize that when judging people, we look past our own weaknesses and pretend we don't have any problems. Just they do. That person that's too far gone. What if that's you some day? Did you ever think about that?