Why Look for Flaws? {a devotional}
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Philippians 2:3.
Oh,
how hard many make the Christian life! They climb the steep, briary
path, staggering under imposed burdens, as though they must tinker up
the characters of others.... They do not experience the sweet peace of
Christ. They do not grasp the help Jesus gives them, but they are
continually grieving over supposed wrongs of others, and overlook the
cheering, blessed tokens for good all along their pathway.
Just
as soon as one has a vivid and all-absorbing consciousness of his own
personal accountability to God and of his duty to his fellow men, and
senses that his influence is far reaching, stretching into eternity, he
will not be satisfied with a low standard, he will not be faultfinding
and critical of others. He will make his own life what he would wish the
lives of others to be. He will live only in Christ, utterly and wholly
dependent on Him for every beauty and loveliness of character.
We
should be weeding out of our thoughts all complaining and faultfinding.
Let us not continue to look upon any defects that we may see.... If we
would get the right hold on God, we must keep beholding the great
precious things—the purity, the glory, the power, the kindness, the
affection, the love, that God bestows upon us. And thus beholding, our
minds will become so fixed upon these things of eternal interest that we
shall have no desire to find the flaws in others.
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