{"id":2036,"date":"2012-02-29T11:29:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T15:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2012-02-29T11:29:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T15:29:05","slug":"a-clearer-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2036","title":{"rendered":"A Clearer Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cJudge not, that you be not judged.\u00a0For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.\u00a0Why do you see the speck that is in your brother&#8217;s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?\u00a0Or how can you say to your brother, &#8216;Let me take the speck out of your eye,&#8217; when there is the log in your own eye?\u00a0You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother&#8217;s eye.\u201d<\/span> \u2013 Matthew 7:1-5 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>While it\u2019s part of human nature to form opinions based on the acts and actions of those around us, Jesus warned us against making rash and pointed judgments about others while our own lives are far less than perfect.\u00a0 When we place our focus on bringing the righteousness of Christ to every part of our lives rather than finding fault in the journeys of others, we see the world with a new, clearer perspective.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJudge not, that you be not judged.\u00a0For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.\u00a0Why do you see the speck that is in your brother&#8217;s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?\u00a0Or how can you say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[321,2748,3194,1180,2743,269,2746,2744,2745,2747],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-christ","tag-clearer-perspective","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-gospel-of-matthew","tag-human-nature","tag-jesus","tag-less-than-perfect","tag-opinions-of-others","tag-rash-judgments","tag-righteousness-of-christ"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-wQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}