Ian Barclay's Thought For The Day

A CHRISTIAN LOOKS AT MATTHEW’S GOSPEL
Stop rubbishing others!
Reading: Matthew 7:1-5 Click to view passage

Jesus is talking about a critical spirit. “Stop rubbishing others,” he commands and the reason is obvious; nothing destroys a happy church faster and more disastrously than this. We are often critical when we really don’t know the facts and circumstances.
It is more than possible that we’ve been guilty of misjudging others at sometime and we’ve probably suffered painfully from the misjudgements of other people too.
In the book of Esther, Haman is eventually hung on the gallows he prepared for Mordecai. That is the danger of a critical spirit, it can easily boomerang back on us.
We need to take both the speck of sawdust and the plank out of our own eyes.

Meditation: Everyday we see politicians rubbishing others, think how marvellous it would be if they built each other up. Plan to build others up today.

Prayer pointer: Help me to be a builder-up and not a puller-down.




Matthew 32