Improving at Finding Faults

A client was in my office this week who has visited my office over 10 times so that I could do work related to his deceased wife’s estate. It occurred to me when he left that every time he has been with me, he informed me about someone’s failure or someone’s ill-intended actions. In other words, every time he has been in my office, I heard an accusation of sin about somebody.

Before we were born of Yahweh, we were convinced that we could see people’s actions as good or evil. If our ability to see failures and our ability to respond to those failures hasn’t improved since we became believers, it should be clear that it is either not a spiritual activity, or, if it is spiritual, it is not a Holy Spiritual activity. If we are just recounting others’ sin to make ourselves look or feel better, it is possible that our sin is the greater.

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else: “Two men went up to the temple complex to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee took his stand and was praying like this: ‘God, I thank You that I’m not like other people—greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’
“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, turn Your wrath from me—a sinner!’ I tell you, this one went down to his house justified rather than the other; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
(Luke 18:9-14 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)