為甚麼看見你弟兄眼中有剌,卻不想自己眼中有梁木呢? 3 「Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
你自己眼中有梁木,怎能對你弟兄說:『容我去掉你眼中的剌』呢? 4 How can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye, when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
你這假冒為善的人!先去掉自己眼中的梁木,然後才能看得清楚,去掉你弟兄眼中的剌。 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. 40馬太福音 7:3-5
June 27 "The Lord hath sent strength for thee."(Psa. 68:28, P. B. V.) THE Lord imparts unto us that primary strength of character which makes everything in life work with intensity and desicion. We are "strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man." And the strength is continuous; reserves of power come to us which we cannot exhaust. "As thy days, so shall thy strength be"─strength of will, strength of affection, strength of judgment, strength of ideals and achievement. "The Lord is my strength" to go on. He gives us power to tread the dead level, to walk the long lane that seems never to have a turning, to go through those long reaches of life which afford no pleasant surprise, and which depress the spirits in the sameness of a terrible drudgery. "The Lord is my strength" to go up. He is to me the power by which I can climb the Hill Difficulty and not be afraid. "The Lord is my strength" to go down. It is when we leave the bracing heights, where the wind and the sun have been about us, and when we begin to come down the hill into closer and more sultry spheres, that the heart is apt to grow faint. I heard a man say the other day concerning his growing physical frailty, "It is the coming down that tires me!" "The Lord is my strength" to sit still. And how difficult is the attainment! Do we not often say to one another, in seasons when we are compelled to be quiet, "If only I could do something!" When the child is ill, and the mother stands by in comparative impotence, how severs is the test! But to do nothing, just to sit still and wait, requires tremendous strength. "The Lord is my strength!" "Our sufficiency is of God." ─The Silver Lining.