R.G. Lee's humor mixed with Devotional Thought

        Dr. R. G. Lee humorously told the following joke:  The man had been in the choir for several years but he just couldn’t sing.  The pastor finally asked the man to come by his office.  Once there the pastor said, “It would be a good thing for you to leave the choir.” 
     At that the man asked, “Why? I’ve been in the choir for four years.”
    “Yes, I know, but I heard three people say you cannot sing.”
    “Aw! That ain’t nothing!  I heard fifty-six people say you can’t preach!” 

     When problems arise in a person’s life, whether personally or on the job, they often like to focus on someone else instead of making a change; a change that would improve their own life and reduce the problem they, themselves, may have created.   Sometimes they like to pull the other person down just to build themselves up.   Oftentimes, this creates a false image of the other person and creates a hostile environment. 

     Read what Jesus said: Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank that is 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 (Matthew 7:3-5).

     What Jesus is saying is to first focus on your own shortcoming and on changes you need to make. This is not to say that others around you don't have faults and bad habits.  They may.  But despite that, God wants us to focus first on our part.