According to Jesus, our hearts, like soil, are only able to sustain and feed one living organism, either thorns or corn; the priorities of the words of Jesus or the values of the world. We can’t sustain both.
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Jesus knows our tendency for self-deception, how prone we are to live in denial about our character flaws. Our conscience, God’s deputy sheriff within us, reminds us of those flaws and the need to take action. But we are prone to dismiss, even deny its voice and pleas to change.
This is why Jesus continues to motivate us as leaders in Luke 6:43-45 to practice the art of self-evaluation and personal transformation, a topic begun in 6:37. Our Savior knows that unless we stop living in denial, our character flaws—the log in our own eye—will remain lodged there for life.
Do we really want that to define the rest of our life-story?
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Q1: What is it about the human condition that makes us see other’s faults so clearly but not our own?
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