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| Justine Khmara, from mymodernmet.com |
“Why do you take note of the splinter in your brother’s eye but do not notice the wooden plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while all the time the wooden plank remains in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the wooden plank from your own eye, and then you will be able to see clearly enough to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.
Matthew 7:3 -5
My worst fear; living the life of a hypocrite. There is so much that I do which both through choice and ignorance, is not what I believe in. I think of the advice given to Muslims who eat haram food unwittingly. "If you do, say at a friends house, and they have assured you the food is safe, and you never knew it was not, then there is nothing to be done. If you learn that the food was a problem after eating it, pray for purity, and you will absolved." The challenge for us is when we know what is the best, honourable and right thing to do, we do it.
PRAYER: Open my eyes, and then give me the strength to follow you.
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