We know that saying about lemons. When life throws them at us, don’t get distressed over their sour taste. Rather, we need to slice them up, and bask in the sun with our glass of lemonade in hand.
What we’re really saying is make the most of whatever situation we’re in. If we can’t change what’s wrong with our life, then find the best way to look at it, and focus on that.
Matthew 7:1-5 speaks to this in a slightly different way. We are told not to speak in judgment about other people unless we’ve removed the bigger transgression from our own life.
The problem we face sometimes runs deeper. That log in our eye that prevents us from helping our brother is sometimes all we can see. How then can we help those around us who are in need?
John 7:24 tells us to “judge with right judgment.” Essentially this means to look deeper than what we can see. We have to judge with the purity of Christ.
If we can’t remove the log, and it’s all we can see, let’s make lemonade out of it. Let’s carve it with the Word of God, sculpt our Christian witness into its surface, and shape it to look like Christ. Let’s turn that mighty obstruction into a hand-carved beam filled with the love of God, and soon, the love of Christ will be all that we can see.
Once we’ve done that, others will look at us, and they won’t see a great obstruction obscuring our vision. They’ll see the mighty gifts of God flowing from us, and obscuring the evils of the world from our sight.
We will be the witness to the lost that Jesus wishes us to be. We will emulate our Lord, because that will be all we can see.
When we carve God into our problems, even our problems will become a witness unto him.
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