By Banji Ayoola
What is my business with the faults of my neighbour, with his imperfections, with his sins?
What is my business with the speck in his eyes? When I have my own shipload of faults to contend with.
When I have my own weaknesses, and inadequacies hanging on my neck barring my ascent towards the Light. To redress, correct and redeem.
When I have truckloads of logs in my own eyes.
When my neighbour’s faults which I dwell on, for which I want him hanged, guillotined, or shot by a firing squad; for which I passionately instigate hostility, hatred and derision against him; for which I condemn him mercilessly, are anchored in me to a larger extent.
When I am worse than him, or any other person.
When my greatest work should be on myself. On my faults and weaknesses, on efforts to redeem my tons of faults, of guilt, develop and mature. Which necessitated my journey here in the first place.
Yet, the Almighty Father shows me His Mercy and Love. He still permits me a breath, a space in His beautiful Creation.
Yet, He tolerates me in His Creation, and gives me wide opportunities still to gradually mature out of my faults behind a protective shield.
Am I then justified to condemn my neighbour at all?
