Before you turn the searchlight on someone else, turn it on yourself. It is easy to rant about what someone else is doing and be blind to what we ourselves are doing. We gaze fully at the flaws of others while seeing our own faults only in our peripheral vision, if at all. Before we say a word about the behavior of someone else, what if we ask ourselves, “What am I doing that is like that?” At the point of this revelation we will be able to give prayerful grace to the other.
“But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?” Romans 2:3 (NASB)
