Key verse: You may think you can condemn such people, but you are just as bad, and you have no excuse! When you say they are wicked and should be punished, you are condemning yourself, for you who judge others do these very same things. Romans 2:1
This verse in Romans is a good corrective for people like me who tend to notice all the bad folks and bad stuff around me.
For some reason this verse made me think of the old Michael Jackson song about starting with the Man in the Mirror. The chorus of that song, leaving out the echos and whoops and moonwalks goes:
“I’m starting with the man in the mirror. I’m asking him to change his ways. And no message could have been any clearer: If you wanna make the world a better place – Take a look at yourself. And then make a change.”
Of course we also know the rest of this story. No matter how hard I try to change myself, I’m always coming up short. It’s only by the grace of God and the gift of his Son that I can be changed. That is good news. And yet it’s often easier to complain about the evil around me than to yield to the spirit God makes available to and within me.
Wouldn’t it be cool if I could look in the mirror and see me the way God sees me? His child.
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