Seeing Your Own Faults
One of the hardest things in life is to be objective about yourself. It is hard to see your own faults, and it is difficult to measure fully your own strengths. Most of the time we minimize our faults and magnify our strengths. If we are truly humble, it should be the other way around.
One of the best lessons we can learn in life is to be harder on ourselves than we are on others. We know our own thoughts and motives. We can judge ourselves pretty well, if we will be honest with ourselves and the Lord. However, with other people we never fully know their thoughts and motives, so she should not be critical. Yes, we can discern actions and tell if another follows God's Word, but we should not put them down for failing. We ought to be critical of ourselves when we fail, so we will listen to the Lord and get it right the next time.
This tendency to overlook our problems and emphasize the problems of others is detrimental to the unity of a church or a family. If a husband thinks so highly of himself that he can't admit his failures, but he tells his wife her failings all the time, they will not have a close relationship. We must learn to be charitable, especially with the ones who are closest to us. God wants us to lift each other up. He doesn't want us to put others down to make ourselves look better, that is not His way. We are all important to Him, no matter our weaknesses or strengths. Let's try to walk together in love, so God can use us to do His will in a grand way.
Tomorrow, I intend to read Leviticus 3-6.
One of the best lessons we can learn in life is to be harder on ourselves than we are on others. We know our own thoughts and motives. We can judge ourselves pretty well, if we will be honest with ourselves and the Lord. However, with other people we never fully know their thoughts and motives, so she should not be critical. Yes, we can discern actions and tell if another follows God's Word, but we should not put them down for failing. We ought to be critical of ourselves when we fail, so we will listen to the Lord and get it right the next time.
This tendency to overlook our problems and emphasize the problems of others is detrimental to the unity of a church or a family. If a husband thinks so highly of himself that he can't admit his failures, but he tells his wife her failings all the time, they will not have a close relationship. We must learn to be charitable, especially with the ones who are closest to us. God wants us to lift each other up. He doesn't want us to put others down to make ourselves look better, that is not His way. We are all important to Him, no matter our weaknesses or strengths. Let's try to walk together in love, so God can use us to do His will in a grand way.
Tomorrow, I intend to read Leviticus 3-6.