“People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones,” is a saying worth considering. How many times have I criticized someone for a bad quality in their character or dress before looking inward at myself?
I would guess the phrase could be a takeaway from Luke 6:42, “How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye.’ When you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
I would guess the phrase could be a takeaway from Luke 6:42, “How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye.’ When you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
Even as I take a look in the mirror and see my fault along with the fault of others, I need to show love. If I truly love, I will not be prone to throw stones. If I truly love, I will not think myself above another. I will not set myself up in a glass house to be shattered and broken. I need to heed the words of 1 Corinthians 13:1, “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.”
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