A Look Through The Window

A young couple moved into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they were eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbor hanging the wash outside. “That laundry is not very clean,” she said. “She does not know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry detergent.” Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments. About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband, “Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this?” The husband said, “I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows.”

Isn’t that the way it is with us at times? We are so quick to pick out the faults of others while we are blind to our own faults. Take the time to consider your life and your relationship with God. Don’t consider how your spouse, children, parents, or friends could do better,  but how you can do better and be more pleasing to God. “Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith…” (2 Corinthians 13:5).