Matthew 7:3-5- "And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck out of your eye', and look, a plank is in your own eye?
Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye."
I have been guilty of this so many times! I remember talking about how selfish I thought one of my friends was with her money. Then, the next week we went out to eat with someone. My husband decided to buy his dinner (which he ordered an $18.00 meal). I was feeling very stressed about our money at the time, so I started to grumble to myself about what an expensive meal he got and began to complain about having to pay for it!
What a hypocrite I was! How selfish I was! This was the same kind of thing I would complain about my friend doing, and here I was doing the same thing!
That's what this verse is talking about... me always looking at what others are doing wrong and not first asking God to show ME where I have been wrong and selfish and judging others for things that I do myself... just maybe in a different way or in a different area in my life.
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i think this is really good one because it is so true! i know i am guilty of doing it & everyone is. many people just dont realize what is worng with them until after they say something to someone else then it is too late. this is a really good eye opener! ♥
this is so true in so many ways. i serisously have SOOOOOOO many hypocritical moments and everytime i hear that verse it brings me back to reality and reminds me of how i am acting and how others are going to percieve me. i deffinately have a plank in my eye and it needs to be taken out ! ♥
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