## Removing the Rocks
_“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no
attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother,
‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to
see the plank in your own eye?” – Luke 6:41-42_
Have you ever tried to go for a walk when there is a rock in your shoe? If it
is a pebble it can be very annoying and if it is a larger rock, it can be
painful too. One day, a Christian woman was having great difficult moving
ahead in her walk with God. When she asked Him what was the problem, He said,
_“There are some rocks in your shoe.” _Since this was not literally the case,
she sat down and began to think about what that might mean. Slowly, the Lord
reminded her of a variety of conflicts she had encountered and her unkind
reactions which had quietly begun to harden her heart. It was as if a handful
of rocks were in her shoe, and she was finding little strength to glorify her
Master with patient and merciful responses. It happens to all of us. The roads
we walk along are dirty and filled with tensions, broken promises, and
disappointments. As believers we know we should forgive, but there are three
common enemies that often show up in times of distress. These three are
pride, anger and self-righteousness.
Scripture:
_Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must
deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save
their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.”
-Matthew 16:24-25_
_“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider
others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own
interests, but also to the interests of others.” -Philippians 2:3-4_
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