Before you
find fault with someone or before you pick a splinter out of their eye, the
first prerequisite would have to be there must be an actual splinter in the
eye. In your life, there are people who are splinter pickers. These people find
splinters in the eyes of others even when these other folks don't know there is
a splinter in the eye. Splinter pickers are always looking for the fault, the
defect, the mishap, the misstep, the minor mistake, and the slip-up. When
something like a mistake occurs, the splinter picker is the first person to
charge up and tell the person with the splinter. Then, with a pair of big water
pump pliers, the poor person gets his or her eye gouged out in an effort to get
at the splinter. Splinter pickers somehow put themselves above others and feel
appointed by someone, normally God, to do the gouge work. They are what others
call "Holier than thou" since these splinter pickers have appointed
themselves, or feel appointed, to be above the rest of us. More often than not,
these splinter pickers find splinters that are not really there. Splinter
pickers can gouge out the eye, they can split the church, and they can make new
Christians fall away. Splinter pickers can destroy the home, make unnecessary
waves at the workplace, and cause trouble and dissension when there was no
trouble and dissension before the splinter picker goes to work gouging and
hurting. Whatever you do, never find fault with anyone, especially a family
member.
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