Hypocrisy...

Recently, I was confronted about having a sour attitude towards something. During that confrontation, everything that the person said was true and honest. Truth and honestly is okay, right? Well, maybe...

When talking to someone, what's your motive? Is it to glorify yourself as you compare yourself to that person or is it for the person's genuine good? Is their best interest in mind or is the conversation marked with self-interest? The Pharisees were the best at this. They built a reputation of glorifying themselves and making themselves look holy as they pointed fingers at sinners and scoffed. There was no love in those exchanges, just a lot of pride and an improper value of self-worth.

In my conversation, I felt the fingers being pointed as the conversation was a "shame on you, you miserable sinner" conversation. I don't deny that my attitude was sour but something in my heart was just so opposed to listening to a single word in that conversation. I felt attacked personally. I felt myself being looked down up. I didn't want to act.

The more I thought about it, the more foolish I felt. Okay, so maybe I was wronged. Big deal...the fact of the matter is that my attitude was still improper. I was on the verge of letting my pride prevent me from honoring God just because the message was relayed in a less than biblical way. Man, for someone that was so anger about others not being humble, I'm not too humble myself..