Are you playing the “log and speck” game?
Remember? That’s the one where you are so busy trying to get the speck out of someone else’s eye that you neglect to first get the log out of your own,
Remember that game? It’s a game because it is folly (foolishness, child’s play) in the eyes of the Lord.
The issue is not whether others have specks or logs in their eyes. We all do. That’s not the point. The point is the perspective of God.
The perspective is that all transformation before God starts with you and Him. Not with you playing God to try and transform everyone else. That is NOT the work of the Kingdom. That’s just you.
A log will always be bigger than a speck.
If you are not honest enough to deal with your own log, you cannot even begin to accurately see someone else’s speck. Why? Because your log is blinding you.
The Lord has at least four offenses that God could charge you with if you do not repent of this behavior:
1. Hypocrisy: You want to change/judge/correct the behaviors that you don’t like about others, yet will not change/judge/correct yourself. You hold others to a higher standard than that to which you hold yourself. You have, effectively, deceived yourself into believing that you are God and that you are above reproach. (NOTE: Pitting yourself against God is never a good idea.)
2. Judgment: Usurping and misappropriating God’s authority for your personal comfort, preference and convenience. You presume your own sin is less substantial and significant than that of those you judge because you have declared yourself to be better than “they” are. You mistakenly justify your bad behavior because you believe yourself to be God. (NOTE: Pitting yourself against God is never a good idea.)
3. Rebellion: God is love. Love builds (edifies) and encourages others especially through disagreements and disappointments. Love forgives.
The “log and speck” game is the classic story of manifested unforgiveness which generally shows up as deflection and projection.
So, when you aim for specks instead of dealing with your logs, you are not living in the love of God or, in the Spirit of forgiveness. This is rebellion which is called witchcraft in Scripture if you’re read it.
4. Pride: Just as love buildeth (KJV) up, knowledge puffeth (KJV) up. To be puffed up is to be filled with air just like some of those puffy cheese snacks you might like to enjoy.
While you might appear to be full of knowledge, without love, you are simply full of air. It is okay to have knowledge, but if the purpose of your knowledge is to demean and disparage others, regardless of who they are, you have run way afoul of God and God will hold you accountable. Don’t think for one minute that He won’t. Read Luke 12.
We all need to be privately and publicly repenting and praying for mercy every moment of our lives rather than taking it for granted. I think God would settle for at least once a day.
You are in dangerous territory with God if you are wrongly appropriating the Name of the Lord apart from Holy Spirit, apart from grace and, most importantly, apart from love.
How you treat others is the manifestation of how you truly feel about God.
If you hate your brothers/sisters/neighbors whom you can see, how can you begin to say you love God whom you cannot see?
This is clearly a Kingdom question stated as a rhetorical question that explains a Kingdom principle. What is that Kindgdom Principle, you ask? The Kingdom Principle is that you cannot love others if you don’t love God and you cannot love God is you don’t love others.
Stop making stuff up as you go. God’s not playing. He judges from the inside (your spirit and soul). He doesn’t wait for you to act up and act out. He already knows you who you are. The question is, do you know who God is?
ICYMI, God is love.
It’s time for you (and all of us) to repent before we get handed our hats and shown the door.
What will you choose?