"Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbor, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye' while the log is in your own eye?

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye,

and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor's eye." (Matthew 7:3-5).

…yesterday I spent a bunch of hours in First Aid training as part of my volunteer work for the town where I live. I’ve been through some very advanced training back in the day so much of it was review but the Holy Spirit was speaking around the instructor…

When you are dealing with a puncture wound and the object is sill embedded in the patient, don’t attempt to remove it as that may cause more damage. Pack around the wound, the object, and transport to ALS (advanced life support)

Jesus isn’t telling us to just yank the sin out of our lives… it will simply come back. He is asking us to listen to his diagnosis…we are blinded by our our ambition and addiction to “being right”..

Come to me, he says, and show me my our wounds. Don’t be afraid, look, here are mine… when we confess our logs John tells us in his first letter (1 John 1:8-9) the Great Ophthalmologist can remove them.

..so that we can see clearly not “their faults” but who God really is and who we really are…

You can’t see how beautiful God is when you have logs in your eye, nor the image and struggles of the one in front of you… God is more concerned in our blindness…do you see?

clearly that we have a bigger problem than the person are judging, that we are blind and cannot see even our own faults, that we cannot take the log out of ourselves.

As part of my own logging, I’m shifting out of social media onto this forum… I get too distracted by specks.