A Train-Load Of Girders
It’s not a sight you see very often.
We were headed North and the train going alongside us was heading in the opposite direction. Several cars were open, with layers and layers of beams stacked about four deep with space inbetween. They were metal and are called i-beams or girders.
It sparked good conversation with my daughter. Jesus talked about beams. Some translations say girder. When we become pre-occupied with trying to get a spec from others eyes, it is there at that very moment that we actually have a beam in our own. Another way to say it, that the moment we start seeing a spec in someone’s eye and move in to remove it, we can be sure our eyes have a girder. Girders are HUGE! These trains carrying them were filled with them. You can’t see really well to get out a spec with eyes filled by those huge things.
I believe it’s so true. If our lives are preoccupied with the faults of others...no matter how small or big....could be as small as a spec, we walk around pretty blind. We need to release those specs we see to God and ask for His perspective for all around us. It’s then, as He gives us fresh eyes to see, that we are not blinded by a girder anymore. And voila, amazingly the spec is no longer there to remove.
Jesus shared another principle of this concept. He said that if our eyes are evil, our whole body will be full of darkness. You can’t see when there’s darkness.
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”
Matthew 6:22-23
If someone shares a spec in another persons life, you can be sure that there could possibly be a reason. Girders and darkness (offenses) can grip our heart pretty easily as human beings and no one is unprone to it happening. In the darkness of offense, we like to bring things up....discoloring another....causing others to have offense. It’s a domino effect that we all need to watch out for and wrestle through with God until eyes are back to being filled with His perspective and light.
“Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.”
Hebrews 12:15
We were headed North and the train going alongside us was heading in the opposite direction. Several cars were open, with layers and layers of beams stacked about four deep with space inbetween. They were metal and are called i-beams or girders.
It sparked good conversation with my daughter. Jesus talked about beams. Some translations say girder. When we become pre-occupied with trying to get a spec from others eyes, it is there at that very moment that we actually have a beam in our own. Another way to say it, that the moment we start seeing a spec in someone’s eye and move in to remove it, we can be sure our eyes have a girder. Girders are HUGE! These trains carrying them were filled with them. You can’t see really well to get out a spec with eyes filled by those huge things.
I believe it’s so true. If our lives are preoccupied with the faults of others...no matter how small or big....could be as small as a spec, we walk around pretty blind. We need to release those specs we see to God and ask for His perspective for all around us. It’s then, as He gives us fresh eyes to see, that we are not blinded by a girder anymore. And voila, amazingly the spec is no longer there to remove.
Jesus shared another principle of this concept. He said that if our eyes are evil, our whole body will be full of darkness. You can’t see when there’s darkness.
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”
Matthew 6:22-23
If someone shares a spec in another persons life, you can be sure that there could possibly be a reason. Girders and darkness (offenses) can grip our heart pretty easily as human beings and no one is unprone to it happening. In the darkness of offense, we like to bring things up....discoloring another....causing others to have offense. It’s a domino effect that we all need to watch out for and wrestle through with God until eyes are back to being filled with His perspective and light.
“Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.”
Hebrews 12:15
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