CLEAN THE SPECTACLES BEFORE YOU CRITICISE!

A man and wife were on a long trip. They stopped at a full-service fuel station. After the attendant washed the windshield, the man leaned out of the window and said, “It’s still dirty. Wash it again.”

The attendant complied. When he finished, the man leaned out the window again, and said, “It’s still dirty. Don’t you know how to wash a windshield?”

At that time, the man’s wife reached over, removed her husband’s glasses, cleaned them with a tissue, and slipped them back on him. What a difference: the windshield was clean!

Most of the times,  it’s not our circumstances that need changing, but how we’re viewing them. A proper attitude can make all the difference.

If only the husbands saw their wives and their wives looked at their husbands after cleaning their specs!

If only the children saw their parents and the parents saw their children after cleaning their specs!

If only the neighbors looked at each other after cleaning their specs!

What a different and beautiful community would our world have turned out to be if we were willing to 'clean our specs'!

Jesus has cautioned the disciples: “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.  For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.  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?  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?  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" (Mtt. 7:1-5).