Father, please grant me an abundance of patience each day for You are surely patient with me and I can do no less for those charged to my care, old and young alike. Love and patience go hand in hand, as I have experienced under Your care. Amen.
Luke 6:41-42 (<<click to read the passage)
Our current political climate has possibly heightened this problem but all in all, it is a conundrum that plagues the entirety of our society. Mudslinging is at an all-time high on just about every front. We are a people that love to point out “specks” in other people’s eyes while all the while trying to “see past the log in [our] own eye”.
We are so quick to point out another person’s flaws but are just as quick to hide our own.
One big fallout from this mindset is that speck in your friend’s eye? It really does need taken care of.
Most of us at one time or another have gotten something in our eye, and I have yet to meet someone who can just carry on like nothing is wrong at all. Even getting an eyelash in your eye is very uncomfortable and everything else comes to a screeching halt as we take care of it!
We all need “specks” removed from our eyes and sometimes we need someone else to help us.
Our son, Massey, wears contacts and there have been times in the past when for whatever reason the contact has slipped to the back of his eyeball. It hurts! And the bad thing is, he can’t see it! Your one eye can’t see the back of your other eye! Sometimes he can feel exactly where it is laying but sometimes he needs our help to locate it.
Now if I was farsighted and refused to put my glasses on, would I be of any help to him? My trying to see things close up would be useless. Talk about the blind not being any good to the blind! I would have to make sure that my vision was clear in order to help him with his vision.
From a spiritual point of view (no pun intended!), how can God use us to help others with spiritual problems if we refuse to address our own? With God’s help we, first, need to take care of our “logs”, then He will be able to use us to our best abilities to aid others.
“It is easy for us to rationalize our sins by pointing out the same mistakes in others,” my Life Application Study Bible says. We can sling mud all day long but unfortunately…our source of mud may be ourselves.
Lord Jesus, may we see clearly our “logs” and get rid of them so that You can use us to love others as we love ourselves. Amen.
Feb 20th, 2020, Thurs, 12:18 pm
