Making The Other Person's Speck Look Like A Log

It is common to see a person who has done wrong to not face responsibility for his/her sinful conduct by placing the blame on someone else. Many times, such a person will tell exaggerated truths and ugly lies about this other person to divert the finger of judgment. You see this often in a spouse wanting the approval of others to divorce, in separated parents fighting for custody or support of their children, in those who want to justify their sins and gain sympathy, and in criminals wanting to be free from the punishment of the law.

The Bible says that we are each responsible for our own conduct.

"For we are each responsible

for our own conduct."

Galatians 6:5 (NLT)

If someone doesn't take responsibility for his/her own actions, then he/she is a hypocrite who tries to make the speck in someone else's eye look like a log so that the log in his/her own eye looks only like a speck.

"Hypocrite!

First get rid of the log

in your own eye;

then you will see well enough

to deal with the speck

in your friend's eyes."

Matthew 7:5 (NLT)