Pastor's Perspective - Speck-tators!

A young couple moved into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they were eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbor hanging the wash outside.
“That laundry is not very clean,” she said. “She doesn’t even know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs a better laundry soap. Perhaps she’s just lazy.” Her husband looked on, but remained silent.

Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see nice clean wash on the line. She said to her husband, “Look! She’s finally learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who finally taught her.” Without looking up from his newspaper the husband replied, “I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows.”

Friends, the One who washes us and makes us whiter than snow once asked, “Why do you look at the speck 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 the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:3-5 NASB)

Just a little Windex wisdom for ‘real people’ like myself, who sometimes miss it.