Getting the log out of our eyes

When morning came, there was Leah! So he said to Laban, “What have you done to me? Wasn’t it for Rachel that I worked for you? Why have you deceived me?” (Genesis 29:25)

I was just thinking this morning, “How much would Esau have laughed to hear those words coming out of Jacob’s mouth.”

Did Jacob himself later see the irony of what he had said?

But then I thought about myself.

I was thinking this past week about someone who really annoys me. And yet, do I ever do the same things that he does? And even if I don’t, what faults do I have that I’m blind too?

As I thought about that, Jesus’ words came to mind.

Why do you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the beam of wood in your own eye?

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a beam of wood in your own eye?

Hypocrite! First take the beam of wood out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother’s eye. (Matthew 7:3-5)

So once again, I was praying, “Father, search me and know my heart…see if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” (Psalm 139:23，24)