If you are supposed to see or hear what I write or say today and you don’t, who failed? If you are not supposed to see or hear what I write or say today and you do, then who’s guilty? I recently wrote a blog post and as often happens, someone said “I know who you wrote that for”. Sometimes they say “so and so needs to see this”. And their mission in life is to see to it that it gets before “so and so”. As a preacher I have lost count of how many times I have heard people say that at the end of a sermon. I’ve also lost count of how many times I myself have thought “you may be right but you could use it in your life more”.
As we examine our own lives and those of others, we tend to play God. We judge their actions and motives to determine if we can “help” them be a better person, a better christian, even a better example to us. Jesus taught this whole splinter in their eye, beam in your own for this very reason and I don’t know that I have done very well with it. Continue reading