Are we a Stumblingblock?
“Let us not therefore judge one another any more:
but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to
fall in his brother’s way.” (Romans 14: 13 KJV)
On August 14, 1980, I humbled myself and admitted that I was a sinner. I
repented of my sins and asked God to forgive me and invited Jesus into my
heart to be my personal Saviour. The cleansing atoning blood of Jesus was
applied to my heart for the forgiveness of my sins. I was saved but I was a
stumblingblock to those around me. I was very judgmental. Not only was I a
stumblingblock, I was also a hypocrite because I had not forgiven the people
who had hurt me.
We read in the Bible “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy
brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how
wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye;
and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the
beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the
mote out of thy brother’s eye” (Matthew 7: 3 – 5).
Yes, I was saved but I still harbored unforgiveness, bitterness and
resentment in my heart for those who had hurt me. I really was a hypocrite.
However, before you start judging me, search your own heart and see if you
are a hypocrite. Have you really forgiven those who have hurt you? Have you
forgiven them from your heart or did you just give them lip service when you
told them that you had forgiven them? What about it, are you a
stumblingblock to your family, your friends and to those around you?
Joanne Lowe
July 9, 2009
joannelowe8@cox.net
www.joanne-freedominjesus.blogspot.com