The Window Story - A Bible Illustration
A young couple moved into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbor hanging the wash outside.
"That laundry is not very clean," she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap."
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.
And so it is with life. What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.
Source: The Window Story Lesson - The Window Through Which We Look
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You can go to the above site to get more information about what the meaning of this story is if you like. And it is really good.
In the meantime, it is a short story with a powerful message that hits most of us right where it hurts. Or should if it doesn't.
Have you ever known someone that puts other people down daily no matter who they are? Perhaps he or she doesn't even know them, Much less know what their life has been like.
God has something to say about judging others in the following passage:
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what, measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Mathew 7:1-3
Years ago, we were in a Walmart store waiting in line at the Pharmacy. In came a woman and her child and the child was throwing a royal fit. The mother was having a hard time getting him under control. And if I had not have known who they were, I could have been very judgemental. Why doesn't his mom discipline him? Why was he allowed to go off like that in a store? Why didn't she take him out of the store?
But I knew the situation and did not have to ask those questions. The boy was autistic. His mother alone in the store with him, needing something from the Pharmacy and putting myself in her shoes, I had no idea how I would have handled that myself. I am sure it wouldn't have been any better and could only thank the Lord that my children were not born with the problems they dealt with, and then pray for the two of them.
Life is hard for a lot of people in a lot of different situations. And we are not to judge because we don't know what people have to deal with on a day-to-day basis.
God also says that with whatever measure we deal out our judgment, we will be judged by him the same.
And I would like to add something to that dirty window image above. Have we let the dirt and grime of judgment build upon our own window so much over the years that we no longer have even a peep hole to see-through?
If that is true, all it takes to clean it off is asking God for forgiveness and believing he will wipe away that dirt. And then stop judging others as well. It takes practice. To stop judging others that is. Because it is an easy thing to do. But with God's help, we can keep our windows perfectly clean that shine and sparkle with the light of Jesus!.
Thanks for coming by, Friends. Have a blessed day!
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