Day 133: The one without sin can throw the first stone.
Today’s Reading: Job 35 – 37
Job 36:4 “Be assured that my words are not false; one who has perfect knowledge is with you.”
It is so much easier to see the fault in another than recognize the sin within ourselves. Elihu was still at it! Confirming his own perfection and Job’s imperfection, yet ending with the point that God regards no one that is wise in their own eyes. Elihu was trying to throw a stone without regarding any stones thrown at him.
Matthew 7:3-5 “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, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
Don’t we all do this? We so easily see the issues of another before we look at our own self and get our heart cleansed. Are any of us perfect?! Is it our job to fix someone else before we fix ourselves? It’s so easy to forget our own flaws when we see another’s flaws. We must strive to get our heart right with God before we use His Words to teach and rebuke another, and when we do find a flaw in someone else we must go to them out of love and concern, not judgement and conceit. We are given God’s Word to help others grow in their walk with Him, not push them down. You can’t throw a stone when you are washing feet.
James 4:11 “Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.”
The next time you feel the urge to judge your neighbor and possibly pass it around (Gossip), STOP, PRAY, and Ask the Lord to reveal anything in your own heart that needs fixed. I always tell my kids, we can’t fixed others but we can fix ourselves. Only throw the stone if you have no sin.
Psalm 139:23-24 “Search me, God, and know my heart;test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me,and lead me in the way everlasting.”
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