The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Matthew 7:3-5,
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
Isn't it amazing how we all ignore (or at least fail to recognize), our own shortcomings? How few are those of us who are willing to acknowledge faults and shortcomings in our own lives. How many of us readily see faults in others!
Jesus points out in this passage that we can certainly see faults - just not within ourselves. Following a great sermon we think if so-and-so would just listen to that message... while failing to see how it is something we should apply to our own lives. We listen to the message and then consider the others who need to hear it while often not including ourselves in that list. We very often violate the very message we think someone else needs to hear as we deem how appropriate it would be for them.
We all have blind spots! Me, you, all of us! The Son of God certainly knows us well.
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