Gospel: Matthew 7: 1-5
The physical eyesight of humans is a limited and fallible sense. Few of us possess perfect 20-20 vision in the first place, and even if we do our range of vision is limited in scope. Even with perfect eyesight we are deceived all the time in what we see. Our vision is often clouded or obstructed by other objects, and while convinced we saw one thing we come to discover upon closer inspection that it is quite another thing altogether.
Our inner vision is often facing the same dilemmas. How often do we misjudge situations and people? Our entire experience of many people is through media caricatures of them, and yet we have convinced ourselves that we know these people and can judge them. We meet an actual human being for one hour and come to definitive and irreversible conclusions about them in that brief encounter of someone who has lived many more hours than that one in our presence.
We all desire and demand a fair hearing and judgment from others, and yet how reluctant we are to provide it for them! How would we fare if we were judged in the way we have judged other people? Jesus tells us the measure with which we measure will be measured to us. We might take heed of this warning before our daily read of the news and the attendant judgments we might level against others in its perusal. We might seek to know someone a little more than one hour of idle chatter before rendering a verdict on another's life. We might treat others as we would want to be treated.
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