Today I found out that someone I have been working with for a few months is a Catholic. This revelation startled me because I had assumed, for no good reason, that they were probably not Catholic or even Christian.

I realize that I make lots of assumptions like this one in my daily life with people. It is inevitable, I guess, but sometimes my assumptions stem from erroneous and perhaps even sinful judgments of a person. I don’t know much about them, for example, but I still infer a lot from their behavior and then make some determination about whether they know God or not, and if so, to what degree.

I was delighted when I heard that they were Catholic, and I faced God with the fact that he had known all along (of course) that they were Catholic, and this whole time he knew I had made a wrong assumption. God is greater than me by a large factor.