I don’t know about you but I am very quick to see someone else’s sin a whole lot quicker than I am able to see my own. It’s not because they’re not there, but because I can slip into self-righteousness so easily! I begin to think I have a speck in my eye but everyone else walks around with logs. The truth of the matter is, I have logs and everybody else has specks! I have been convicted over and over again that I have to stop this, not just with people I know but even with people I don’t know!!! Like the guy I read about in the newspaper, or the latest political candidate’s sin, or the mom I see yelling at her child in the grocery store!!! Why do I feel I can make judgements about them and feel better than them? It’s because I can be very self righteous! I think I am better than them!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh Lord, forgive me for so great a sin!!!!
So, following in the footsteps of my old dead friend Jonathan Edwards (http://www.apuritansmind.com/ChristianWalk/ResolutionsOfJonathanEdwards.htm) , I resolve as he did:

“to act, in all respects, both speaking and doing, as if nobody had been so vile as I , and as if I had committed the same sins, or had the same infirmities or failings as others, and I will let the knowledge of their failings, promote nothing but shame in myself, and prove only an occasion of my confessing my own sins and misery to God.” (Jonathan Edwards)