Helping others

"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 7:4-5

We must be cleansed ourselves, if we would seek the cleansing of others.

What if our own hands, with which we would wash the feet of other disciples, are not clean — but are themselves covered with sin?

Instead of cleansing the lives we touch — we shall then leave stains upon them.

So we must see that our own hands have been washed in the blood of Christ, before we undertake to wash the feet of others.

Then we must be willing to yield over our own feet to the water.

The washing is to go all around; we are to wash one another's feet.

The secret of all, must be genuine love for others.