Calling yourself out

(Cricket....yup cricket)

Calling yourself out

Cricket is a sport that theoretically has some resemblance to baseball. I’ve read about it hoping to grasp some sense of what goes on but to no avail. I suppose the fact that the one person I know who actually grew up playing cricket says he can’t possibly explain it me should have been a clue. But even so, an article that took Team England player Stuart Broad to task for accepting an incorrect umpire’s call that went in his favor intrigued me. Apparently, much like golf, players are supposed to call themselves out even before the umpire makes a ruling.

“How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye.” Luke 6:42

God asks you to call yourself out as well.  Too often we are happy to run down or pile on other folks who have stumbled.  We are equally slow to admit our own shortcomings.  But we are only in a position to truly help our brothers and sisters after we have admitted our own sinful nature.  We ought not wait for God to make it obvious. Listen to your conscience and make the right call.

Thanks for all you do.

Brian

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Volume 7, Number 17