She Should
She should do this, she should do that.
I have, and truth be told I have brought people there myself.
Recently I watched someone struggle and try to explain why although "she should," she couldn't.
Only because she had a pile of "she should's" she worked at getting through each day.
Typically, no matter what explanation is given it is hard to get out of the "she - you or he should."
What "she should" do can become a topic of conversation and put on that person's list by another until - it is done.
Isn't it easy to hear what someone is doing and say what they should do or should have done?
Isn't it easy to shrug off caring or helping if they haven't done those things?
Lately I have been trying to take care of a lot of things. Clean up from the holidays, exercise, write, and downsize "stuff." Typical January.
If you freely walked through my home, it would be easy to say a lot of "she should." I am serious. I would be there for a long time.
I would probably hear - she should clean up the mess in the garage, in her closet, put those blankets away or get rid of them, sleep more, exercise so those pants fit again instead of buying a new pair, clean the fridge, clean the car, visit parents and friends more - yep! If you stepped into the middle of my life right now there would certainly be a list for me to receive of what I should do only because you wouldn't know what my focus is on right now.
It isn't obvious.
When I watched the person struggle the other day hearing what she should be doing, I was privy to a smidgen of her priorities and totally understood the struggle.
With my own list, and watching her struggle with another's determination of what should be priority in her life, I got really convicted.
It made the Bible verse about fixing the log in your own eye before another's, hit me in a new way.
Basically, I have my own stuff to deal with and to overcome, so who am I to tell another how to deal or what should be their focus and tell them what they should do?
I don't have the whole picture of their life. And I struggle over the stuff in my own.
Who am I to think I know?
Now, I may have learned somethings to pass on, and I may be able to help someone in certain areas, but who am I to take someone to the " she-he- or you should?"
Matthew 7:3-5New International Version
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? 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? 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."
Will I ever reach a point that I don't have some sort of plank in my eye so I can clearly see exactly what another should do at that given moment?
No.
The only thing I can clearly tell someone what they should do at that moment is to follow Jesus. Follow Him right into eternity.
That is the only very clear thing, that no matter what, a person should do.
Amen?
Comments
Very good read.