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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hello, my name is Andrew Satch and I'm an Anglican Minister at Grace Church Greenwich
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I want to talk today about judgment. In fact, that's a subject that Christians traditionally think about during the season of Advent, which begins tomorrow
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And I want to read one of the most misquoted lines from the teaching of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount
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Don't judge, says Jesus. People love that. It sounds like he's championing some kind of expressive individualism
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Each do their own, you do you, no absolute moral standards. But that's not what Jesus means at all
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So rather than take him out of context, let me read the whole verse. Matthew chapter 7 verse 1
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Don't judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way that you judge others, you will be judged
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and with the measure that you use, it will be measured to you. Jesus is warning about hypocrisy
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that we notice the moral failings of others, but we're oblivious to our own
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And he has this very comic illustration. How can you say to your brother, let me take the speck out of your eye
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when all the time there's a plank in your own eye? Imagine you're sitting there in the optician and they're looking into their ophthalmoscape
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and all the time there's this great log or spatula coming out of their own eye
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And it's just a silly illustration. But Jesus isn't saying we should ignore other people's specks
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Taking specks out of eyes can be really helpful. we should just give precedence to our own logs
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You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye and then you'll see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye, says Jesus
