Tuesday, 30 July 2013

SELF EXAMINATION


July 28, 2013


One of the easiest and the most convenient thing to do as humans is to criticize and judge those around us. I saw a movie recently about a marriage counselor who could tell what’s wrong with every marriage but her own home was tearing apart.

Matt 7:1-5 teaches us to do self-examination (spiritual checkup) for ourselves before doing for others. Verse 4 says, “Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?” Someone said that each time you point a judgmental finger at a person, four fingers are towards you. One thing I have come to understand as well is that judgmental people are most times those with a whole lot of skeletons in their wardrobes, so in order to appear real, they shift the spot light of  judgment towards another person.

When the harlot was brought to Jesus in John 8, He said, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” By the time Jesus lifted up His eyes to see who the accusers were, they were all gone away. Examine yourself. When last did you sit yourself down to examine your spiritual life and how well are you doing? Stop looking for the errors of others? You got one or more as well. Fix that!

Remember you will give account of your life someday. Don’t get busy examining others without examining yourself. Do some spiritual checkup. I am sure that some prayers are been delayed because some spiritual illnesses need to be diagnosed and treated.

As you take time out to examine yourself, everything limiting you would be revealed to you in Jesus Name. Amen!

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