Someone I know recently referenced Matthew 7:1-5. Now, I don't know whether this person was saying that they were the person with the plank in their eye, or whether they had someone come at their speck while that person had not taken care of their own plank. Either way, it reminded me that there is a point that often gets missed in these verses.
The main point is to make sure you are taking care of your own business before you go jumping into someone else's. Many times, however, these verses are quoted by the people being rebuked as a way of deflecting the correction. In the verses, Jesus does not say that the first person doesn't have a speck in their eye, only that the person coming to them needs to make sure they are looking at themselves and fixing that first. Whether or not they do that doesn't change the condition of the person with the "speck".
If we are wrong (or doing wrong) the condition of the person pointing it out doesn't excuse us.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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