Good
Morning Friends,
“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, ‘Brother, let me
take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in
your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you
will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.” (Luke 6:41-42)
We
are often quick to see the problems in the lives of others and slower to see
the issues in our own lives.
Jesus
offers an instruction about how to avoid that. When you see a problem in
someone else’s life … take a good look in the mirror first. That look in the
mirror may accomplish several things:
It
may help you choose not to mention the other person’s problem at all,
overlooking their problem because of the number of problems you have.
It
may help you see a problem in your own life that needs to be dealt with before
you start criticizing anyone else.
You
may still decide the other person’s problem needs to be addressed, but the look
in the mirror may soften your approach to the other person.
The
truth is, all of us have problems. So we need to treat each other with grace
and kindness, not with harshness and criticism. The goal is to treat the other
person in loving ways. The goal is to treat the other person in the way you
would like to be treated if the situation as reversed.
There
are times when love does involve the confrontation of their problems, but love
dictates a different approach than what often comes naturally.
His,
by Grace, Steve
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