God-Inspired Nuggets
  • Blog
  • About
  • Blog tidbits
  • En español
  • Blog
  • About
  • Blog tidbits
  • En español

When you live in a glass house, don't throw stones...

30/12/2015

1 Comment

 
Picture
       The adulteress represents all sinners (see John 8:3-11). We all have secret sins, desires, temptations that may be brought to light. The devil is just looking for an opportunity to expose us, to destroy us. He can only do that if we give him the opportunity to do so. He is the accuser of the brethren; but it is better to be falsely accused than rightly accused. He wants to make God look bad  because this battle is really between him and God; we are just pawns in the battle. When the woman was presented before Jesus, it wasn't about her and what she had done, it was about trying to destroy Jesus. Ironically, these religious men were not really interested in obeying Moses' law as much as they wanted to destroy Jesus. They were just as much sinners as this woman was. Similarly, the devil is just as much a "sinner" as we are. It's kind of like the pot calling the kettle black. Both are pretty much in the same boat. We though have salvation as our way out, the devil has nothing!
       When someone falls, everyone becomes judge, juror and executioner. Somehow that person's sin looks worse than our own but in fact it is not. In God's eyes sin is sin. We are the ones who like to categorize it. God's ideal is that we confess our faults to one another, to help one another. Instead, we expose and talk about and thus condemn one another. Ironically, we condemn our own selves, because while we accuse another we ourselves have sin in our lives. That's why the bible says to cast out the beam from our own eyes before we deal with the spot in our  brother's eye (Matthew 7:5). We can't "see" clearly with sin in our lives . Sin mars our perspective so that we cannot see as we should. In fact, condemning someone else may seem to help us deal with or even come to terms with our own sin. It is, however, NOT the way to deal with our sin. We need to acknowledge and confess our sin to God, forgive ourselves and move on. Then, instead of condemning others, we can help them, we can pray for them, especially leaders whom we hold in high esteem. Rather than condemn them when they do wrong, we need to pray for them because they are human just like us and need our prayer even more so because they are a prime target. Once the enemy strikes them, he can scatter the sheep. We are less condemning of others once we can see our own sin in our lives. Being honest with ourselves and acknowledging our sin keeps us from condemning others.
       Note well though that when Jesus dismissed the woman, He told her to go and sin no more. He didn't condemn her yet it was not an excuse or opportunity for her to continue in her sin. She had to stop! She had the ability to stop.


Picture
1 Comment
Elizabeth
29/1/2016 06:04:57 am

We are soooo guilty of this...promoting and highlighting other people's sin and thinking they are worse than us when in God's eyes sin is sin. Lord help me to be less self righteous, judgmental and condemning of others.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    July 2025
    June 2025
    May 2025
    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025
    December 2024
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    October 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    May 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    May 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    November 2016
    October 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015

    Author

    This blog provides inspirational nuggets inspired by the Word of God and serves to encourage and motivate Christians in their Christian walk. 

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
Photo from getmilitaryphotos