Mat 5:2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them,
saying…
Mat 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in
thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Mat 7:4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me
pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Mat 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out
of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of
thy brother's eye.
And we continue
being taught by our Savior.
How incredibly easy
it is for us to look at the faults in others. How easy it is to gossip, to say
things like- "I'd never do that."
"I'm glad I'm not like that." "They've got problems." We say this sort of thing all the time. We
see so clearly what we imagine to be faults in others lives but our own lives
we'd much rather not examine too closely.
How dare we imagine
that we would not do the very same thing another person is doing, were we
walking in their shoes.
We are such
different people. Every single one of us is different from the other with NO
TWO people exactly alike. We have
numerous commonalities but we are NEVER the same, never.
Two people in the
exact same situation can, and often do, react completely different to that
situation.
My mindset is
different from everyone else. We can agree on a lot of things, but we will
never agree on everything. The audacity
of anyone to presume they would do BETTER in a situation another isn't doing so
well at, is arrogance at its worst. Sure, it might be true, but to belittle
anyone is wrong. When we tell someone that we could do something better, we are
telling them they have failed to do the job as well as it could be done. Too many people some how believe they are
HELPING others when in truth they are just bringing others down to pat
themselves on their back.
We aren't supposed
to examine others but ourselves.
2Co 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the
faith; prove your own selves.
1Co_11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him
eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
This of course goes
along with JUDGING NOT.
We just need to STOP
looking at the faults of others while refusing to look at our own.
If we do want to
take another's faults to task, first we have to take our own to task. If we can RID ourselves of all our faults,
THEN and ONLY THEN do we have the right to point out the faults of others.
We truly are
hypocrites when we go after the faults of others while ignoring our own.
Please Lord, help us
to learn to look to our own faults before we dare to look at another's. Please
Lord, please teach us, help us learn these lessons and make them part of our
lives, our REAL every day lives.
The next time we are
tempted to fault another, please help us to pause and question our own faults
first. Please.
We aren't saying
that others don't have faults, we all do. But ignoring our own and choosing
rather to expound on others faults is wrong, very wrong.
Help us LORD, keep
us in YOU. Known by You and knowing You.
All in YOUR LOVE!
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