Nitpicking

Matthew 23:24 (NKJV) Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
Matthew 23:24 (The Message)You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You keep meticulous account books, tithing on every nickel and dime you get, but on the meat of God's Law, things like fairness and compassion and commitment—the absolute basics!—you carelessly take it or leave it. Careful bookkeeping is commendable, but the basics are required. Do you have any idea how silly you look, writing a life story that's wrong from start to finish, nitpicking over commas and semicolons?

Mark chapter 14 verses 3-9 tell the story of a woman who broke a jar of expensive perfume and poured it on Jesus’ head. The onlookers immediately found fault, saying that the perfume could have been sold and the money given to the poor. Jesus quickly corrected them, explaining to them the purpose of what the woman had done which they had completely missed. As Christians, our eyes should be always looking beyond reason, beyond first impressions, and beyond ourselves in order to allow Christ to reveal to us His purposes in all things. Yet, so often we see something in church or in another Christian’s life and become indignant. Our eyes become clouded by our judgments of how we believe things should be, and we completely miss what God may be doing right before our eyes.

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