if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself?
you who ban nuclear projects, do you drop bombs?
you who demonize dictators, are you a tyrant?
you who fight terror, do you terrorize?
what does murdering murderers accomplish?
why do you have the right to weapons of mass destruction?
who made you judge?
you try to make peace, but you cause more chaos.
Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
from the book of Isaiah 12 “ When you come to appear before Me, Who has required this from your hand, To trample My courts? 13 Bring no more futile sacrifices; Incense is an abomination to Me. The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies— I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting. 14 Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; They are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. 16 “ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, 17 Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow. "
Its so easy for me to take a scripture like this and always relate it to someone else, how someone else is doing something wrong, and how they need to change. A lot of times when I'm reading I find myself pointing the correction towards someone else, which may have its place, but it can only be after we've examined our own hearts. Jesus said "first remove the log from your own eye, before you try to remove the twig from your brother's eye". Finding the log in your eye, can sometimes be an obvious thing, but sometimes it can be difficult and you only find it when you really meditate on how you are affecting or not affecting your world by your actions.
This can really happen when you immerse yourself in different social justice issues. You see all of these terrible things and you want to call people out on it. It may be the right thing to do, but do I have the right to do it?
God show me the injustice I cause! Is there blood on my hands?!
