"But what if there's no log in my eye?"

Pride, arrogance, self-righteousness, and judgmentalism are all problems that plague Christians and alienate others from our faith. As a result, Christian leaders constantly remind us that we are sinners too so as to not think ourselves better than anyone else.

But there is one person for whom this line of persuasion couldn’t have worked: Jesus

It suddenly strikes me that the one person in all of history who could legitimately look around at everyone else and pretty confidently say, “I’m way better than all of you,” was Jesus. If ever anyone was entitled to pride, arrogance, self-righteousness, and judgmentalism, it was Him. And yet He wasn’t any of these things.

On the one hand, this is definitive proof that there is something inherently undivine about them, if even He didn’t show them. And on the other hand, it makes me that much more amazed by His complete lack of contempt for the very sinners He was qualified to die for precisely because He was so much better than they were.

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