“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.” Matt 7:3-5 (NIV)
You always find what you are looking for.
If we want to find fault in someone, we won’t have to look far. It is so easy to discover inconsistencies in others. When it comes to examining the lives of others, we have the eyes of an eagle. Detecting defects in others has a way of boosting our self image and stroking our ego. We tend to look through the microscope to view others and then choose to view ourselves through rose colored glasses.
Jesus lobbed a major teaching on the value of proper introspection. He uncovered our human tendency to view others critically while viewing ourselves gently. Jesus even used the explosive word, hypocrite. When we critique others unfairly and then hide behind a mask that conceals our authentic current reality, Jesus exposes our hypocrisy.
What if we began viewing ourselves in light of the holiness of God? What if we began to view ourselves in light of God’s Word? Our response would be like that of Isaiah, “Woe to me! I am a man of unclean lips!” (Is. 6:5). Remember, man looks at the externals, but God looks at the heart (I Sam. 16:7).
Let’s deal with the gigantic log in our own eye and stop judging others for the speck in their eye. To help us find what God wants us to look for, consider praying daily through the Ten Commandments (Ex. 20:3-17) and praying daily through the fruit of the Spirit.
- “Moses said to the people, ‘Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.'” Ex 20:20 (NIV)
- “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” Gal 5:22-23 (NIV)
I think God is calling me to be a logger so that the fruit of the Spirit will be evidenced in my life and through my life for His glory.
Pursuing God,
Stephen Trammell
Executive Pastor
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What you wrote about Mt 7:3-5 is not at all what Jesus Christ was teaching. In Jn 7, Jesus Christ also said: “Judge not according to appearance but judge Righteous Judgment!” When unbelievers and false Christians judge others, they are only heaping judgment upon themselves. We must first remove the beam in our own eye before we can “judge Righteous Judgment,” Lk 6! How? Seek first God’s Kingdom and God’s Righteousness because here is the very beginning of Salvation! Who is obeying this most critical command in these very Last Days? Almost no one, exactly as prophesied. First means first! In God’s Gospel there is a Righteousness revealed that we must believe in, have Faith in, as Paul described so well in Ro 1. Without that Righteousness from God, there will be no Holy Spirit baptism of God’s Power from on High, no being born again. What will happen to those who are not born again? In Jn 3, Jesus Christ said: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee: Except one be born of Water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God!” No Salvation, period! But what “Water” is this? “Living Water”, not physical water! This is God’s one and only saving spiritual baptism of Scriptures such as Mk 10; Lk 11-12; Jn 4:4-26; Jn 7:37-39; Ro 1-8; 1Co 12:12-13; Eph 4:4-7; etc. This is the only New Covenant baptism we must have, given by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself as we read in Mt 3; Mk 1; Lk 3; Jn 1; Ac 1-2; Ac 10-11; etc ! Without God’s one and only Holy Spirit baptism, a person does not have “The Mind of Christ” and, therefore, that person is seriously condemning himself or herself when judging someone else, 1Co 1-6! This is what the real Jesus Christ was teaching in Mt 7:3-5. When true Christians have “The Mind of Christ” then we are to judge because we are all called to expose the fruitless deeds of darkness, Eph 1-6! In Mt 3-7, what kind of “fruit” do the “good trees” produce? Unless you are a “good tree”, you are not drinking from the “Water of Life” and you are not saved, Ps 1; Rev 21-22! Do you want to know more?
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