Blinded, In Plain Sight

God desires full communion with us. We might even believe that we have achieved it. However, He reveals our faults to us in various ways, but pride often blinds us completely. He may show us a fault through our children, a family member, or a friend.


In response, we judge them, even when we believe we do not. Until a graced moment when you ask, "Lord, I think I’m judging. Could I have a wooden beam in my eye? I must be worse. Please show me." If that prayer comes from the heart, He will most certainly show you.

Through Jesus, I learned humility. I witnessed how humility worked its course in my own life. I was blinder than blind.  But he patiently and lovingly led me.


Humility was the grace that enabled me to gain clear insight in the swiftest manner.  

I used the parable of 'why I should remove the splinter from my neighbor's eye when I have a beam in my own'. My prayer was based on that parable. The moment I began to judge someone (unintentionally, as it had become second nature), the grace allowed me to pray differently. It gave leeway for God to reveal the truth to me. Again, the sincerity of the heart was crucial.


If I'm starting to judge this person, then I must be doing that a hundred times worse. "Please show me, Jesus. I want to know the truth about myself. "🙏



By employing this prayer, self-awareness develops rapidly.  Then a wonderful thing begins to happen…you stop judging more and more and with that out of the way- there’s more room to love.


Love is absolutely everything.  
Now, that I see with perfect clarity.