"New Eyes for Truth"

"New Eyes for Truth"



“Stop judging, that you may not be judged. For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you. Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from you eye?’ You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:1-5, NAB)

Carl Jung, after many years as a psychologist, said this is how he’d sum up everything he’d learned: Humanity tends to project its inner world onto the outer world. If you’re always seeing people out there, let’s say, as two-faced, then very likely you’re two-faced. If you’re always seeing people as hard and demanding, I bet you’re hard and demanding on yourself and you believe God is hard and demanding on you.

We see out there what’s already in our minds. Yet the healing ministry of Jesus was to give us new eyes so we could begin to live in the truth and see the real. With the eyes of Christ we accept and forgive our real self instead of hating it in others.

from The Price of Peoplehood