can you say to your brother, ‘Come, let me take the speck from your eye,’ as long as that
plank is in your own? Hypocrite, remove the plank out of your own eye, then you will see
clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Reflection:
It is easy to preoccupy ourselves with others. We sit comfortably in our
judgment seat and have no need to look into our own personal life. We
are busy scaling others and feel a certain sense of righteousness having
appointed ourselves as the conscientious evaluators of their moral lives. The
problem with this task is that the measure we use on others is the measure
that will be used against us too. What we detest in others is usually the mirror
of what we try hard to keep away from other’s eyes. So when we judge
them, we judge ourselves. We have no one to blame of the punishment we
will incur because of our transgressions. Ultimately the judgment is selfinflected.
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