Sawdust In Your Eye- Part 2

I'm still working on this fireplace surround at home. I have sanded it and clear coated it. I steel wooled the first finish and recoated it with clear coat again. It is beginning to look real nice. At the same time, I am still thinking about sawdust in my eye. What has really made me think about it is the fact that I am quite perfect! And since I am so perfect, it is real easy for me to see the faults of all the people around me. Boy, you guys have a lot of faults! You should really get busy and clean them up so you can be perfect like I am.

Jesus addressed something about this in Luke 6:41 & 42. It reads, “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, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye." Wow! This is really deflating! Afterall, I thought I was so perfect. Seriously, why is it easy to see all the wrong in other people and not realize the size of the board in our own eye? I can pick someone around me apart and all the time I am worse than they ever dared to be! Maybe it is my nature. Maybe it is something I learned from my parents. Maybe I'm not as perfect as I think I am. Hey, Brother, can you lend me a hand? I have a quite large board that I need to remove from my eye! Think about it!