As I left the busy area of the mall wearing my brand new ‘Jesus’ tie I had just purchased as witness to family members far from Christ, I hurried onto the main freeway. Morning traffic was still dense, but I had time to merge; BUT the car in the lane next to the ramp was not making room for me.
It breezes by as I braked rather than merging. The woman driver had a cell phone up to her right ear. She never saw me.
So (of course) I followed my gut reaction as I squeezed into traffic behind her. As she blew by the ramp, phone to her ear; I tried my best to get her attention back on traffic with a long blast on my horn.
And you guessed it. What was the first thing I noticed?
Her bumper sticker:
PRAY
Yes, this brother in the Lord (with the log in his eye) noticed clearly this sister in the Lord with the speck in hers.
I had to laugh. (And pray that nobody would notice that the car honking his horn had a bumper sticker on the back from his daughter’s Christian college.)
Matthew 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Want to witness to an unbeliever? (For they are hypocrites, too.)
Tell them you are a sinner. I am!
When I look in the mirror I do not see Christ; I see a sinner.
Even unbelievers see the sins of OTHERS, including ours.
Look in the mirror and remove the log of hypocrisy from your eye. THEN, confess your sin and witness Christ Jesus.
Even the unbeliever will see clearly: the truth of your witness or the lie of our hypocrisy.
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