What Does it Mean to have a Speck or a Plank Inside of Your Eyes?

What does it mean to have a log or a speck inside of your eyes?

          This is an essay that has a whole lot of importance in our daily lives.  The question is what does it mean to have a log or a speck inside of your eyes? First, I would like to say that having a log or speck inside of your eyes, means we have sins in our lives.  For instance, in my case, I used to look at pornography each day for the past 43 years.  I also used to use vulgarity since I was 5 years old.  The reason why I have done these things because I was angry and my parents used vulgarity toward each other.

          Further, my mother and stepfather used to cuss each other out all of the time. I guess for the past 21 years of their marriage, my mother and stepfather has problems communicating with each other. As far as pornography is concerned, I started looking at it when I was a child.  I asked God to stop me from using vulgarity and looking at porn. God has changed me from the inside out.

I feel a whole lot better because I am a new creation according to 2 Corinthians 5:17. I had problems from my past that tend to affect me through this very day.  According to Matthew 7:3-5 says: And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but you do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, let me remove the speck from your eye; Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

          Moreover, I must repent of all of my sins; first and foremost, before I am able to help another person.  The reason why I am saying these things because it is not easy dealing with my own sins without God’s help.  I want to inform everyone that I have to be very careful about the things that we do because God is watching us.  If you do not believe me read Proverbs 15:3.  This Bible verse say the eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.  This is true because I asked Him too.  I am not saying that I am a very weak person.  However, I still have to be very careful because Satan is busy.  Satan is the master deceiver. 

         

In Addition, I want to inform all of you that the devil will hurt you.  According to John 8:44; it states that you are of your father, the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do.  He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources; for he is a liar and the father of it.  This is the truth because the devil, all he wants to do is steal, kill, and destroy.  This is a verse from John 10:10. The Lord says that He has come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.  The Lord God is blessing me every single day.  For example, He is keeping me clean and sober from alcohol and drugs.

          Also, I have been clean and sober for 28 years as of this year in 2018.  I admit to using vulgarity for the past 47 years.  I also admit to looking at pornography for the past 43 years. I also admit to having a mental illness called schizoid affective disorder and bipolar1.  I also admit that I come from a dysfunctional family.  I will admit to writing a 350 page manifesto about my personal life during the time I was a patient at Summit Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. For 4 consecutive months, I wrote down everything that the voices were saying to me; whether or not it was good or bad.

          According to 2^nd Timothy 1:7 says that God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and of a sound mind. God does not want me to be scared of demonic spirits.  We are supposed to fear God and not demonic spirits. I also want to say that God is doing for me, what I cannot do for myself. I write every single day, read the Bible out loud, and pray out loud because it helps me to cope with having a mental illness. I also attend AA and NA meetings as well as attend church on a regular basis.  When it comes to people who had a plank inside of their eyes. The first one was Cain, who killed his brother Abel because the Lord favored Abel over Cain.

          Eventually, when it comes to the Bible, King David, killed the husband of Bathsheba in secret.  2^nd Samuel 12:9-10 says why have you despised the commandments of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon. Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. The Lord punished David for what he has done to the Lord.  These are examples of what it mean to have a plank and a speck inside of your eyes. It is the sins that we commit each day that makes the Lord very displeased with us. The Lord will forgive us of our sins as long as we repent honestly of our sins.

         

Finally, there is no turning back. David’s first child by Bathsheba died and he was in great distress.  David did wrong in the eyes of God.  We all must repent of our sins and be honest about it.  I repent of my sins on a daily basis.  I will admit that I feel ashamed and embarrassed about everything that I have done wrong. Do you know that everything we do in our life is being recorded by God? Matthew 12:36-37 says but I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give3 account of it in the day of judgement. For by your words, you will be justified, and by your words, you will be condemned.  Please repent of your sins because it is the only way; we are going to heaven.  We must believe that Jesus Christ died and rose from the dead. We must also believe that God is the Creator of all things. Thank you very much for reading my essay.

My name is Anthony Joseph Hopkins and I am a Blogger.  I have been writing for the past 8 years.