we are
looking in the bible at why it is wrong to judge other people. matthew writes that it’s wrong to judge when
it blinds me to my own faults.
matthew 7:3-5
(niv), why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay
no attention to the plank in your own eye?
how can you say to your brother, “let me take the speck out of your eye”
when there is a plank in your own eye?
you hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye and then you can
see clearly to remove the speck in your brother’s eye.
JESUS is
talking here in HIS famous sermon on the mount.
this is a
good example of the fact that JESUS told jokes.
hebrew humor is humor by exaggeration.
HE said this in exaggeration and i’m sure the disciples got a big laugh.
imagine two guys:
one guy has got some sawdust in his eye and the other has a telephone pole
hanging out his eye. JESUS is making a
point here with humor. HE is saying it
is wrong to judge when it blinds me to my own faults. if judging you causes me to not look at myself
realistically, then it’s wrong. we are
great speck analyzers, nitpicking specks, when we have a logjam in our own eye.
so it is
wrong when you practice the same sin.
it's wrong when it blinds you to your own fault.
just a
thought from the front porch…
