OUR FATHER WHO SENT HIS SON TO DO AND TO TEACH Part 19

The Lord, continuing in Mathew chapter 7 verses 3 - 4, teaches His followers the principles of self-awareness and self-alignment.

3 “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? 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.

The tendency for us to look askance upon those around who have issues in their lives while ignoring our own shortcomings is a very real phenomenon that stems from our familiarity with our own moral ecosystem that makes us blind to our own proclivities.

The Lord calls this hypocricy and advises us to examine our own lives objectively and endeavor to extricate harmful behaviour patterns enmeshed in us before we start looking into the lives of others to correct their foibles.

Living in the spirit requires clarity in perception to be able to assist others and thus it is imperitive that we remove obstacles and contaminants in our lives that muddy our ability to correctly perceive the issues our brothers are entangled in.

Amen.

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