KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Plank
FUNNY HOW UGLY sin looks when it is someone else who has committed it...
Isn't it interesting that Jesus said, "Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?" (Matt. 7:3). The word Jesus used for "speck" and "plank" are one and the same in the Greek, implying that the two are of the same substance but that one is larger than the other. Jesus was saying that often a person will be quick to notice a modified version of the sin he himself is struggling with, failing to see how much that sin has truly taken over his own life.
Show me a person who is hyper-critical, and I will show you a person who is guilty of far worse sin in his own life. David was guilty of adultery and of premeditated murder. Yet he thought it perfectly just to kill a man who had merely stolen his neighbor's sheep. Of all people, King David should have been "Mr. Compassion." But instead, he was "Mr. Hypocrisy." He fell neatly into Nathan's little prophetic trap, as the prophet pointed his finger straight at David and said, "You are the man." (Greg Laurie)
KneEmail: "Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?" Matt. 7:3