“Remove the Speck!” “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the plank in your own eye?” Luke 6:41 Seeing like our other senses are selective. We see what we want to see, hear, taste, touch and smell likewise. We walk with blinders on turning our heads away from anything that is unpleasant to us. But the one person we cannot turn away from is ourselves. Jesus calls the person who will not examine himself to see his own faults a hypocrite (Luke 4:42) a pretender, or actor: one who holds beliefs, standards, opinions that they do not in fact live. Psychologists have identified mental mechanisms that serve hypocrisy with contradictory functions in the brain to predispose people to perceive and condemn faults in others, but they fail to see their own faults. Jesus gives the remedy for hypocrisy: “First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother’s eye” (Luke 6:42b). The bottom line is we cannot help others until we get self-help that requires self-examination and by the God of ourselves, our Creator. We can humble ourselves before God and ask that He reveals our false beliefs and wrong attitudes before we criticize other, because often the problem or fault is with us and how we see things, not our brother or sister, neighbor, friend or enemy. Dear Father God, I thank and praise You that You are the righteous Judge and I pray that You search my heart and reveal my sins, faults and misbeliefs about myself and others. Free me and forgive me for my sins of judging others and misjudging myself. In Jesus’ mighty and matchless name I pray and give thanks. Amen!
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:00:23 +0000
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