Good point and very true. Lets see all the evidence before we go condemning anybody.
Mat 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
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Absolutely.
I don't have trouble calling a spade a spade.
But every shred of hautiness and self-righteousness needs removed, first.
Otherwise, the judgmentalism WILL come back to haunt EVERYONE guilty of it REGARDLESS of how guilty the target person was, or not.
FACE IT, FOLKS . . .
ALL OF US . . . every last one of us . . . have plenty in our past genetics and conditioning--in addition to being simply born into a sin polluted world--such that
IF GOD CHOSE,
HE COULD ENGINEER ANY VARIETY of CIRCUMSTANCES
to bring out the worst in us . . . EQUAL TO OR WORSE THAN that of any of the folks we hear about in the news.
IT IS !ONLY! HIS !GRACE! that prevents us being the person in the news.
We like to think we are smarter than the average bear.
We like to think we are more righteous than the average bear.
We like to think that our used Kotex works of righteousness make us immune to such news paper articles.
We like to think that it will ALWAYS be the other guy caught in such stupid hideousness.
'Tain't necessarily so.
All God has to do is adjust circumstances sufficiently . . . a little tweaking of the Godly computer program here and there . . . and cess pool mud would be on all our faces by turns.
ONLY HIS BLOOD redeems any of us from any and every thing. And we earnestly must endeavor to cooperate with His ongoing cleansing else the skeletons in our personal and family history will have their way, regardless of our good INTENTIONS.