Address your own sinfulness first

29/12/05 Address your own sinfulness first

It is when you realise your own sinfulness rather then that of your neighbour that true redemption and deliverance is possible. As long as you are preoccupied with the sins of your neighbour, you will continue to be blind to your own sin. Jesus taught that we should remove the plank from our own eyes before attempting to remove the splint from our neighbour’s eye. So true that we are all able to see the faults of our brother so clearly but are blind to our own faults and foibles. What a delusion this is. This is the cause of all the wars between us – a failure to address our own faults. This is the reason for all the fighting and relationship breakdowns. We rather gossip and pour oil on fire rather then repent and turn from our own sin. What a sad state of affair this is. Paul cried out who can deliver us from this cy-cle of sin. Only the blood of Jesus. In Him we have redemp-tion from sin and its effects and can be free to love our neighbour as ourselves. This is to do what you would like done to you. What a gospel of redemption. Come Holy Spirit and have mercy on us blind victims of our own sin.