Daily Scripture

if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, … will you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? You that forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You that abhor idols, do you rob temples? You that boast in the law, do you dishonour God by breaking the law?   (Romans 2.17-23)

Daily Reflection

Hypocrisy is loathsome – and not hard to spot… ‘When lawyers strive to heal a breach, And parsons practise what they preach, When Justices hold equal scales, And Rogues are only found in jails; Then Little Boney he’ll pounce down, And march his men on London town!’ wrote Thomas Hardy in The Trumpet Major. St Paul was echoing Jesus in accusing those who preached about the Law of shameful guilt in not upholding it themselves. Jesus also warned about wanting to get a speck out of someone else’s eye when you have a plank in yours. Who of us is without fault?

David Harmsworth