Will You Not
Teach
Yourself?
But if you call yourself a Jew and
rely on the law and boast of your relation to God and know his will and
determine what is best because you are instructed in the law, and if you are
instructed in the law, and 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
the children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth, you,
then, that teach others, 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
dishonor God by breaking the law? For, as it is written, “The name of God is
blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
How many people have rejected the good
news because of its often sincere but overly zealous
witnesses? How can we be a light, if the light of Jesus does not shine on us
and through us?
By every means possible, let’s
proclaim the gospel. Pray that the Holy Spirit will make us personally winsome
and loving and free from sin so that we can attract others to Him.
produces beauty
in the character.
Our Daily
Bread –