No Rubber Ducks

You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.  Romans 2:1  NIV

     Feeling in control of our lives is important to us; but, it is an illusion.  We try to make ourselves feel better by looking for fault in others when things go wrong.  When someone has an automobile accident, we want to know if they were wearing their seat belt or if they were drinking or speeding.  If someone gets lung cancer, we want to know if they smoked.

        I remember watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory.  Sheldon had to drive Penny to the hospital because she had fallen in the bathtub and dislocated her shoulder.  While filling out forms in the ER, he wrote in the blank asking the cause of the accident, "Failure to apply rubber ducks in bathtub."

        As Christians, we are in the business of saving drowning people.  When you see someone drowning, you don't stand on the pier or in a boat and lecture them on why they should have worn a life jacket.  You throw them a life jacket or a rope or whatever will get the job done to pull them out of the water.

        God does not want us to make ourselves feel like better people by finding fault with his other children.  He created us all and he wants us to help each other.

        It is ironic that the things we dislike most about other people are things that remind us of ourselves.  Yes, we are all sinners.  Jesus died for all of us.  Will you help him pull people into his lifeboat?  Or do you stand in the boat condemning those who are drowning because they aren't where you think they should be in life?  Don't forget Romans 2:1.  Jesus died for others as completely as he died for you.