The quote was referring to your response to Bob: <<You are arrogant, ignorant, delusional and quite frankly, living in a sort of state of mental disease not unlike that which cult de-programing experts have to face>>
That which we so clearly see in others is nothing more than a reflection of our innermost being.
Mr. Chambers continues: "The average Christian is the most penetratingly critical individual. Criticism is a part of the ordinary faculty of man; but in the spiritual domain nothing is accomplished by criticism. The effect of criticism is a dividing up of the powers of the one criticized; the Holy Ghost is the only one in the true position to criticize, He alone is able to show what is wrong without hurting or wounding. It is impossible to enter communion with God when you are in a critical temper; it makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. Jesus says, as a disciple cultivate the uncritical temper. It is not done once and for all. Beware of anything that puts you in the superior person's place.
There is no getting away from the penetration of Jesus. If I see the mote in your eye, it means I have a beam in my own. Every wrong thing I see in you, God locates in me. Every time I judge, I condemn myself (see Romans 2:17-20). Stop having a measuring rod for other people. There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing. ....Who of us would dare to stand before God and say---"My God, judge me as I have judged my fellow men?" We have judged our fellow men as sinners; if God should judge us like that we would be in hell. God judges us through the marvelous Atonement of Jesus Christ."
Rick |
