Go Away from Me!
During the Sermon on the Mount, as recorded in Luke, Jesus tells the parable about the man who tries to remove the speck from his brother's eye. All the while, this man has a LOG sticking out of his own eye. The strange thing is, this man doesn't even realize that he has a log in his eye. All he can see is the speck in his brother's eye. I think Jesus' point here is that, to us, our sin must seem larger than our neighbor's sin. We have to see it for how offensive it truly is. "Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man." This quote comes to us from Peter in Luke 5. Jesus has just commanded the fisherman to go back out and fish again, even though Peter was exhausted. He had fished all night long and had caught nothing. But Peter obeyed Jesus and went back out in the deep water. He pulled in so many fish that they had to call over another boat. In the end, both boats were so full of fish that they almost sank. When Peter realized what had h...