Friday, Twenty Third Week in Ordinary Time In this morning’s gospel reading, Jesus suggests that our limited insight into each other makes it very difficult for us to many judgements about others. It can be very tempting to think at times that we see clearly whereas others are blind. Jesus seems to indicate that we are all blind to some degree and that it is a very often a case of the blind leading the blind rather than the enlightened leading the blind. Changing the metaphor somewhat, Jesus gives us the comic image of someone trying to take a splinter out of someone else’s eye while being oblivious to the plank in his or her own eye. In calling on us to take the plank out of our own eye first Jesus is indicating that we need to be more attentive to ourselves than we are to others. Because of our own faults and failings we do not see clearly enough to understand what is really going on in another person, and, therefore, we need to be very slow to judge and to condemn. Jesus had earlier stated that God, who does see clearly into every heart, is compassionate and merciful to all, even the ungrateful and the wicked. Jesus seems to be calling on us who do not see clearly to take our lead from God who does see clearly, to be as merciful and compassionate as God is.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:50:17 +0000
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