One Day
Not Too Long Ago
I Met An Honest-To-Goodness Pharisee!
AND
Believe It Or Not
His Name Is Me!
Now
What Was So Stunning About This Meeting
Is That I Was Standing
In A Mirrored Space
With My Friend
And I - Me - Was There
Plain As Day
To See!
The Experience
Was Troubling
And
Humbling!
Self Was In The Fore
And Before One Could Say: "Score!"
Condemnation
That Black-hearted Gully-Bore
Was Calling Another
Something Not Nice At The Core!
I Pointed A Finger At The Mirror!
Three-Finger Was Pointing Back At Me
And That Is When
I Heard Satan
Laughing Uproariously:
"What A Dunce!
Condemning Another
By Pound Versus An Ounce!
How Precious!
Get Ready, Thou Judge!
Upon You I Shall Pounce
And
You Shall Know
That You Have Been Trounced!"
Lord Jesus!
Look What Has Come To Pass!
I Saw Their Mote
But A Beam
A Plank
A Big Piece Of Wood
Is Sticking Out Of My Eye!
I - Me - Am Become The World's Judge!
Me - The One Who Is Always Making Fudge!
I Am Now Found Wallowing In Sludge!
I Can't See Myself!
I Am Become God
When That That I Condemn
Is What Has Me Walking On
The Razor's Edge!
If I Slip ...
When I Slip
I Shall Fall
And My Head
Will Have Been Recalled
And, I
Will Have No Opportunity To Recant!
Lord, Please Forgive Me!
You - The Eternal - Are The True Judge!
Lord, Get Me Out Of This Self-Manufactured Sludge
And Keep At Your Side
In Your Care
From Which I - By Living Faith -
Shall Never, Ever, Again Budge!
*********
Judging Another
Is Like
Walking Wide
On
A Narrow Ledge!
*********
When We Judge Others
We Condemn Ourselves
So
Let's Stop Being Pharisees
AND
Remind Ourselves
That
Almighty God
Is
The Judge
AND
Get Off
The Wind-swept Ledge
AND
Walk Away
From
Sin's Fine-Honed Edge!
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