Log Removal

 

     Never allow the man with plank in eye, to approach with scalpel in hand. Only after removing the beam from our own eye, might we see clear enough to remove the speck from our brother‘s eye. Log removal surgery leaves us tender and compassionate, so we may approach our brother with care, rather than condescension. So too, after withdrawing a leprous hand from your own bosom, one becomes reluctant to point the finger at his brother‘s faults. Beholding the depravity in ones own heart has a tendency to make you shy away from condemning others. Having received mercy, you then know how you ought to dispense it, and with great fear and trembling, forsake criticism to become your brother’s intercessor.