The Greatest Life Lesson

I believe that the greatest life lesson occured within the Church whether it is in a building or not. The great life lessons are to be learned from our brothers and sisters. Although their criticism may be correct or incorrect. Those criticism may come from person with wrong attitude or person with right attitude. It all had to come with some filtration, not of our own, but with the help of the Holy Spirit. For our err, for both the person and the self, often left our Church to stray. There is no such thing as a perfect Church. The greatest life lesson will come to us when we stay within the Church to wait upon the Lord. The Church may be our roommates, our family, or our co-workers who believed in the Christ.

"And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds." Hebrews 10:24

When we stayed, we may find ourselves getting more and more frustrated with our errs. We began to get off our "nicey" masks. We showed our true color. We pointed. The great thing about pointing is that we get to see our true color.

"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?" Matthew 7:3

I once found myself pointing toward a person rather than toward God when things get heavier. I couldn't point to God longer in my own effort not to blame, probably out of love. I began to lower my painful arm to point at the speck of sawdust in my own brother/sister's eye. As you know, when you are pointing your finger (index finger) at someone, you are also pointing three more fingers (middle, ring, and pinky fingers) toward yourself. And that's your plank within your own eye. When you finally pointed, you finally learned. Boy, I hate that!

Some of us avoided blaming one another, but we forgot to spur one another with respect. Some of us blamed one another, but we forgot how to love. Those lines are fine. When we spur correctly, we learned healthly.