Let me take the speck from your eye

Come sit beside me, let me tell you a story, one you might relate to. Everyone has a story, similar as they are, each one has a different twist, a different set of circumstances. It's the similarity that connects us to one another.
Each morning I awake and begin my day asking God to show me how I might help my family and friends see the ways of our Lord more clearly. Each morning he guides me to a place in his written word where He speaks to me.
I was taken back a bit when He took me to Luke 6: 41&42.
You see I am always trying to fix the other person. But in the NIV translation of His Book It is written;
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye. How can you say to your brother, "Brother let me take the speck out of your eye when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brothers.
So here in the hour alone with Christ the words pierced my heart. I am working harder at finding fault with others and thinking I must have the answers to repair those in need, yet my Lord is trying to make me still so he can pull the plank out of my own eye to see Him more clearly.
So many times I ask the Lord to search my heart. He defiantly searched it out this morning.
Are you willing to allow him to search yours?

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