I was talking with this man one day and he was recounting how bad he felt for having a judgmental spirit towards a woman in the church that he went to.
This is what he said to me:
The Temptations made a song called, “If you’re living in a glass house don’t throw no stones”. I had a beef with one of the members of my church. I have had constant unforgiveness in my heart towards her, even though we share the same sins. I had a haughtiness about myself, thinking that I was superior to her and looking down my nose at her. Now I feel disgusted at the thought of my actions.
So puffed up was I, until I found out she had cancer. Then all I could think about was what a fool I had been all those years.
To paraphrase the scripture, “Take that log out of your own eye, then you will be able to see how to take the splinter out of your brother’s eye.”
There is no if‘s and‘s or butts about it, I was wrong for the way that I treated her and my attitude towards her sucked. Lord forgive me for being such a fool.
Later, after I heard that, I had to look at myself. I thought about how similar or different than I was from that man, and I realized it wasn’t too much difference. I can say that I’ve fallen into the same judgments. The difference between me and him was he confessed it.