3 “And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eyet when you have a log in your own? 4 How can you think of saying to your friend,t ‘Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye. Matthew 7:3-5
We all do this we are quick to judge others and get angry at them for their faults without admitting our own. But we need to admit that we suck, too, and deal with the faults that we have. Most of the time pointing out the faults of others will not accomplish anything but we can change our faults and when we recognize our sucktitude it will help us to be more humble and gentle in helping others with their faults.
When I realized this truth for my marriage it totally changed things. For the first few years of marriage I thought I was the perfect husband and that my wife was lucky to have me I always focused on her problems and didn’t think that I had any. But God prompted me to start praying for our marriage and for my wife and before long I was spending more time praying for myself because God opened my eyes to how flawed I was as a husband and that my crap stunk, too, and I needed to clean it up. As I became a better (not perfect) husband our marriage got better and stronger.
So, let’s not be so quick to judge others but rather judge ourselves and realize that we suck, too.
