Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Tanya Wilmoth. So about that plank in your eye. You wouldn't dream

about walking around all day with a plank in your eye. I can't even get an eyelash in mind without coming completely unglued.

Yet. Did you know that this is what the Bible tells us we do when we judge others?

We are like people walking around with a plank coming out of our eye and no surprise it actually feels terrible.

Nevertheless, we keep ignoring the plank because we think it will feel worse to notice it and deal with it

than it does to leave it hanging in there. So we're just a bunch of

irritable annoyed people wishing everyone else would fix their own

eye plank instead of dealing with our own. What a lot we can become. However, did you

know the Bible also teaches that it is actually far more relieving to notice the

plank and yank it out than it is to pretend it's not there.

Part of Jesus teaching on the sermon of the mount deals with interpersonal relationships.

And that's where we find ourselves in Matthew Chapter 7.

Not surprisingly, the very first thing Jesus addresses in this area is our tendency to judge

other people while ignoring the exact same sins in our own lives.

Jesus says it like this. He says, why do you see the spec that is in your brother's eye,

but do not notice the log that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, let me take that spec out of your eye when there is the

log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own

eye and then you will see clearly to take the spec out of your brother's eye.

Well there's a lot there but we're going to look at all of it.

We are really good at peering into the lives and character

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