We are fine-tuned experts in picking out the hypocrisies of others, with more blind spots of our own than spots on a leopard. The self-righteous alway wear blinders. We do not know ourselves enough to cry out for the purging that we really need. We have become too busy guarding our holy image to do the hard soul searching work that sanctification regularly requires; we are sadly smug in our own imagined spirituality. Know yourself. Really know Jesus. The Spirit of Jesus, via soul searching, is our only hope of curing our self-deceiving blind spots.
“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” Matthew 7:3-5 (NIV).
