To Thine Own (Best, God-Designed) Self Be True
Years ago, in the first church I served as a pastor, I had a church member who would send me emails a couple of times of year--emails that were filled with criticisms of everything we were doing wrong in the church, and what she would do to fix them. The fact that her communications generally arrived around Christmas and Easter each year was not a coincidence. They were, in fact, the only times a year that she attended church. When I would read her criticisms, my blood would reach the boiling point. "Who does she think she is?" I would ask my wife. "She shows up twice a year and knows everything about everything? Not likely!" And then I would quote some Scripture...sort of. "Jesus taught us to make sure the plank of wood is out of our eye before we start trying to tell someone else they've got a speck of dust in theirs. That woman has a whole lumber yard in her peepers!" This is the verse I was attempting to quote...
