See, this is precisely why I like you, Hayley. When I grow up, I want to be like you. A kid! hehe (Unless you become as one of these little children..
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So, yeah, this has my mind going. Boy. This is good stuff. Okay, so in order for us to get the gigantic sin out of us we have to work, but in actuality, God must work in us, because the carnal mind likes sin. (I'm just figuring all this out--not correcting you.) Okay, so tell me if I'm right, okay? So, the carnal mind, which is enmity with God and hates God, obviously doesn't see a gigantic sin in their brother's eye but only a speck because it only sees what it wants to see, because the carnal mind doesn't want to even acknowledge that it has sin ("whoever says he has no sin, is a liar" No, no, that's not what it says: It 1John 1:18 says: If we say that we have no sin,
we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. Pretty much the same thing).
To deceive ourselves is to ... sin? The heart is deceitful above all and exceedingly weak.
Deceitful is defined as: deceptive - false - fraudulent - delusive -
lying Okay, yes, so I'm a lying, big steamy pile of clay. Phew. Just making sure!
Thanks for letting me work that out.
So, if I'm just a big fat liar deep deep down inside, then God's going to have to work in me in to get that beam out, because my carnal mind likes to think all I have is a little itty bitty speck (maybe that's why we prefer to see specks in brother's eyes -- because it makes us feel as though we're being less judgmental and holier than thou (phoney baloney). I can only keep that up for so long though, because the truth has a way of getting in.. (I can run but I can't hide.) So, here's to mud in your eye!
Raisin rice and rye .... bye-bye!