Have you had your JOY JUICE today? Inspect it with clear eyes as you drink it in. Let it improve your vision….spiritually speaking.
Why is it so much easier to see other people’s faults rather than our own? This must have been a problem from the beginning of time, because there are scriptures on the subject throughout the Word of God. Listen to Matthew 7:3-5…
"Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye."
Before we can help anyone else, we must make sure our own spiritual vision is clear. Instead of being so concerned about the mistakes & sins of others and judging them, we need to take a close look at ourselves. Our own sin may be keeping us from a close walk with God. We need to ask God to remove the scales from our eyes so that we might be “clear-sighted”.
Jesus used a pretty strong term for those of us who point fingers and criticize others. He called us: HYPOCRITE! That’s not a very JOYful word, is it? We are to be discerning, but not negative and judgmental. Let’s trust God to be the final judge as we remove the log from our own eyes.
May each of us be concerned with seeing more clearly our own sins & shortcomings rather than pointing out those in others. If we’ll do this, we’ll be drinking in much more JOY in the Lord.
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