1.5-Get your head out the focus on others problems!
1.5-
It happened this morning at about 6am. I read this:
When you get what you want in your struggle
for self,
And the world makes you King for a
day,
Then go to the mirror and look at
yourself,
And see what that guy has to say.
For it isn't your Father, or Mother,
or Wife,
Who judgement upon you must pass.
The feller whose verdict counts most in
your life
Is the guy staring back from the
glass.
He's the feller to please, never mind
all the rest,
For he's with you clear up to the
end,
And you've passed your most
dangerous, difficult test
If the guy in the glass is your
friend.
You may be like Jack Horner and
"chisel" a plum,
And think you're a wonderful guy,
But the man in the glass says you're
only a bum
If you can't look him straight in the
eye.
You can fool the whole world down the
pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be
heartaches and tears
If you've cheated the guy in the
glass.
Dale Wimbrow
I was reminded to
look at myself closely to do a little self-reflection as I begin the new year,
2018.
I have found that the vacation that comes toward the end of
the past year and the beginning of the New Year is a reunion of our
family. Time with parents, grandparents,
uncles, aunts and cousins is a part of what Christmas New Year’s has meant to
me.
Normally, on the drive back from DFW to Denver or the flight
in later years Sheila and I would reflect on our goals for the New Year. A part of that is evaluation of what we
accomplished compared to what we could have accomplished.
Matthew 7.
7 “Do not
judge so that you will not be judged. 2 For
in the way you judge, you will be judged; and [a]by your standard of measure, it will be
measured to you. 3 Why do you look at
the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in
your own eye? 4 Or how [b]can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take
the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is 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.
2 Corinthians 13.
5 Test yourselves to see if you
are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about
yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you [e]fail the test? 6 But I trust that you will
realize that we ourselves [f]do not fail the test. 7 Now we pray to God that you
do no wrong; not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do
what is right, even though we may [g]appear unapproved. 8 For we can do nothing
against the truth, but only for the truth. 9 For we rejoice when we
ourselves are weak but you are strong; this we also pray for, [h]that you be made complete. 10 For this reason I am
writing these things while absent, so that when present I need not use severity,
in accordance with the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not
for tearing down.
James 1.
23 For if anyone is a
hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his [x]natural face in a mirror; 24 for once he has looked at himself and gone
away, [y]he has immediately forgotten what kind of
person he was.
Jesus teaches us to move away from being judgmental of
others and to rather look at the log that is in our own eye and work on
ourselves.
Lord,
This year help me to refuse to judge
others.
To be honest with a look in the mirror and
be humble and receive your mercy and grace.
Then move forward motivated by mercy to be
all I can be.
Amen.
Larry Wishard
1.5.18
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