Since When Did I Become God?

Why is it that it's so much easier to point the finger at someone else other than myself?

Why is it so much easier to blame someone else for their wrongdoing than it is to see myself for what I've done wrong?

Why is it so much more evident to see the faults and shortcomings of someone else than it is to see my own?

Since when did I turn into God- where I judge the other for his faults, wrongdoings and shortcomings yet without even being aware of this huge plank within my own eye as I try to pluck that speck out of my brothers. I can probably be labeled as the biggest hypocrite alive. All those complaints and bad-mouthing you've heard from non-christians about how Christians are the biggest hypocrites judging the most, you bet that I fit right into that slot of judgmental, Pharisaical, hypocrite of a Christian- being more conscious of cleaning the outside of the cup when the inside of the cup needs the most cleaning.

From where and since when did I start riding up my high horse and start putting on my "I'm so righteous and holy" gear that has somehow morphed me as blameless? When I'm obviously so unbelievably so far from. I'm just as wretched as the next sinner in God's eyes. And I'm just as poor and needy as the next beggar, in desperate need of a Messiah. A Savior. A Lord. A perfect, sinless Christ, to save me from my sin. I need Jesus today and every single day as if it's the first time I've encountered him. In lyrical terms, I can equate today in this, "In the economy of mercy, I am a poor and begging man.." -Switchfoot.

"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 7:5

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean." Matthew 23:25, 26

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’ I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.” John 1:29-31

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