Things We Face Everyday
In the Bible, Matthew 7: 1-5 says 7 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and a pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
I think a lot of times as Christians we sometimes find ourselves judging other people in this world and looking down on others. It’s really easy to be a critic! I’m a great critic and love doing it, but it’s also easy when you don’t take yourself into account. The Bible says that instead of just walking around telling people they are wrong, we need to help them out and show them the right way. Before we do that, we must make sure that we ourselves are on the correct path. So in other words, don’t blame or tell something another brother or sister is doing wrong when you are doing wrong all at the same time. The Bible calls those types of people hypocrites! A simplistic example of what we do in our spiritual lives is something I witnessed one time. My dad and I were riding on some back roads to some hunting land when we came to a 4-way stop. A truck that had prisoners in it, who, judging from the trash bags in the back, had obviously been picking up trash was in front of us. We are riding along and all of a sudden one of the prisoners rolls down a window and throws out a piece of trash! Now that’s a hypocrite! I can promise that God is not letting a hypocrite into Heaven. We need to sometimes check ourselves, so to speak, and make sure we are not being one of those hypocrites. It’s okay to help someone out in a nice way. We just first need to make sure our lives are in order also.
Carter Culbertson