The Running Man and the Jerk

Sitting at a stop sign with five cars in front of me, I began to wonder how long I’d be waiting at this infamous intersection in my town. While tightly gripping the steering wheel with both hands and starring straight ahead at the long line of cars ahead, I noticed a jogger slowly moving across the intersection. Great! More wasted time. As I looked closer, I noticed this guy was not the “normal” jogger type; in fact, his sweatpants were so tight that they looked as if they had been painted on and his stomach was so big that it was hanging out of his sweatshirt. I snickered to myself as I watched him shuffle across the street. My laughter at his expense had finally caused the time to go faster and before I knew it I had had moved to the front of the line. As I made a brief stop at the sign, I found myself looking to the left to catch one final glimpse of the non-typical jogger and I could still see him in the distance slowly moving along.That was pretty shallow of me considering the last time I jogged was…I’m not even sure when that would be. But, I guess it is easier to sit in judgment of someone else instead of first examining myself. “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye” (Matthew 7:3-5).