Grace for your spirit. July 20, 2012

Grace for your spirit
And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Matthew 7:3

Jesus is encouraging all of us to be careful how, what, and when we make judgment on others. We all sin, but lots of times it is easier to see a little sin in someone else, than it is to see the big sins in us. When we have that kind of log in our own eye it seriously affects our vision. We lose our peripheral sight, losing half our field of vision. We lose our depth perception and cannot tell when something approaches us. It all happens so gradually that we can't really tell how bad it has become. The log hurts if we will admit it, but often we won't. Let's visit our spiritual eye doctor, and then we will really have the vision to help someone with a speck