Sin is illusive.
Slick in presentation isn't the half of it. It has an uncanny way of presenting itself to every individual as understandable for ourselves; but vile and rejectable for all others. Sin presents itself in a way that we can justify hatred toward another(s). Sin goes blameless while we dis-eased ones rail against one another.
"Theirs" is quickly despicable and damnable while "mine" seems to, somehow, warrant patient understanding.
The longer I live the more I see Jesus. The more I see Jesus the less I think of me. My stock seems to go down as His goes up. The Son of God was beaten to a pulp over the crimes of Terry Rush. I have nothing to gloat about...except Him.
The blood of Jesus is to be remembered more than a ten minute window at Sunday's communion. It is to be remembered as the million-dollar price paid for my/our sins. Communion declares we are all sunk to the lowest common denominator; yet we are all raised to the highest holy status of brotherhood with the Lamb.
If you are quick to judge another for his or her sins...you just sinned. If you are impatient with any other person whom you deem as hypocritical, deem again. Re-deem. It is me, it is you, who are first in line to take our judgment based upon God's ideal perspective. "They" are not the issue before "I" am confessional.
Once we take the beam out of our own eye, it is at that point that we see clearly. And exactly what is it we are to see? The Word names the one thing we see; a speck. We will be notified immediately that what we thought was a glaring beam in another's eye was really us still staring down the plank which is our own. We just couldn't see around our own.
Once the beam causing personal blindness is removed? What we will all find in another is a mere speck.
Jesus said this...not me.
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