Most people tend to judge themselves religiously in a negative way. In other words they consider themselves to be good Christian people based on what they don’t do. If you ask them if they are a good Christian they may say, “of course I am. I don’t lie.I don’t cheat. I don’t steal and I don’t kill.” While it is certainly important for us to not do bad things, often in scripture you find people being condemned not for doing evil, but for failing to do good. In Luke chapter twelve the rich man is called a “fool” (verse 20) yet there is not one evil deed mentioned to cause his condemnation. In Luke chapter sixteen the rich man, after his death, finds himself “being in torments in Hades” even though there are no charges against him of doing evil. In Matthew chapter twenty-five in the judgement scene described by Jesus, those on the left hand are told, “Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels”. Why are these condemned? “For I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.” In all three of these accounts the people involved are condemned, not because they did evil, but because they did not do good.In Ephesians 2:10 Paul wrote, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” To be pleasing to God we must not only avoid doing evil but we must also seek to do good for others when the opportunity presents itself.