9 October 2024
I was talking to my friend the other week about attending an event, we spoke in the morning and agreed to speak in the evening.
In the morning we spoke about getting ready for the event and I spoke about how it would be a good idea to get the bag and clothes ready the day before as we needed to leave early to attend the event.
Fast forward to the evening, we had a conversation and I was lying in bed tired ready to sleep after the call. Forgetting what I mentioned about getting ready. Truthfully, I was thinking of getting everything ready the morning of the event. That would have been a very silly thing to do and would have involved a lot of rushing.
Something she said reminded me about what I said in the morning, and I got up from the bed and got my things together.
Lately, I have been thinking of things that I said to friends and family, in judgment that I too have fallen short of. You know when you notice something that a friend is doing and you have given them advice that you are not following.
I think sometimes it is easy to point a finger not realising four fingers are pointing right at you.
It reminds me of the verse that speaks about removing a log from your eye before you remove the speck from someone else’s eye.
“Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me get the speck out of your eye,’ when there is a log in your own eye?”
Matthew 7:4 AMP
https://bible.com/bible/1588/mat.7.4.AMP
Sometimes we can look at people through a lens that’s cloudy or polluted with our own thoughts, morals or preconceptions.
I wonder if that’s why we are called not to lean on our own understanding.
This helps me remember to lean on God and ask for renewing of my mind
Blessings
Igho