Walloped By The Plank

And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the plank in your own eye?  Luke 6:41

If any of us should dare to complain over a problem, then we know by now that everyone else will immediately know the solution that the blind complainer is too stupid to implement. Of course blind and stupid will not be spoken in the flow of words, but we have all experienced this sort of implied criticism in life. In His longest sermon, Jesus offered us a different solution involving specks and planks. As we can read in our verse for today, the plank is on our side, even in the very eye we use to offer that poor blind complainer the simple solution to the merest whimsy of a problem. It is a very different way of looking at our brothers and sister in Christ, or any neighbor that we are to love. What if, due to that plank sticking out there, I do not know so much as I think when my sister in Christ has a problem so great that words come out like tears dropping heavily to the ground? Could it be that my blind and stupid brother in Christ has already tried my simple solution and found it insufficient, or even in effect much like a lit match searching for a gas leak in a darkened room? Has that darned plank walloped another one of my brothers and sisters? 

Oh, Lord Jesus, may I look about with love and seek the solution in prayer before speaking out!

Bucky