I love God, I love his ways.God forgives,forgets and does not keep a record of wrongs. God is love, love is God! It recently hit me that in the face of the mirror of God's word I was in the wrong place.
I criticized,judged and never forgot,forgave unconditionally and oh how I kept a record of wrongs.
I was finding my own log. I was pointing a finger, yet I was sinning.I was there losing my head over the sins of another yet I was sinning all the more.
So I was stuck with my loud mouth and my killing words.I was in need of help for my very self, I was being brought back to the face of my own failings. Could my lips bless and yet again curse? Or was I placing the gospel grace in a compromising situation. There I was forgetting my place in Christ, a child of God, Yes but also a sinner saved by grace.Was my sin smaller or bigger? No but it was equal.
Then the Lord, reminded me of the woman caught in adultery, It was in the casting the first stone that we played God to others. We cut down people in God's name even when we know that the sword is not our to slay. So there I was a plank eyed saint with a log in my own eyes yet seeing the speck in other people's eyes. I was caught with a mouth to wash, a heart to restore and God to lean on.
I needed to revisit the fact that beautiful eyes see the good in others. In nature as a man made of dust, I need God's mercy and his help in making me more than the fault finder.