There's nothing like realizing that
there is something so wrong with you, and/or your way of thinking.
Today, I realized just how much this is
true for me.
At church this morning, the message was
about a passage most of us are familiar with in Matthew, where Jesus
challenges us to remove the plank from our own eye before worrying
about a speck of dust in our brother's eye. The concept behind this
statement is so simple, yet it's something that has plagued me for
years.
It is a constant challenge for me to
check myself before I check someone else. AND, not only is this
difficult for me, but I was also challenged by what is said in
Matthew 7:1 where Jesus says not to judge, lest I myself be judged.
However, the insight that Ian gave on this verse was interesting, as
he noted that the judgement here means that we are not called to
judge the essence of a person.
However, we are still called to weigh
the actions of others, and to keep each other accountable.
This is when I discovered that so
often, I am guilty of condemning the person instead of their actions.
What I see is a person who is unrelenting, unrepentant, etc., and so
I have no problem judging them. But, the problem is that I never
realized that instead of judging solely what they were doing, or the
sin, I was judging who they were as a person, or their essence.
It made me sick to think that I was
guilty of doing this.
It was even worse when I realized that
this happens on a fairly regular basis.
God taught me today to recognize this
failure in my life, and is calling me to overcome it....which is a
scary thing, mostly because I wasn't even aware how much it was
affecting my life. But, that's what this blog is for...transparency,
and an understanding of what God is doing in my life and trying to
teach me.
Here goes nothing.
In Christ,
Lilia
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