If you find yourself being misunderstood, i think maybe that's the time to pause and kind of question your motive. In matthew chapter seven, jesus asks why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? And we've talked before about how part of what we're doing with this proverb 16 series on the podcast is talking about ways to study our bibles more thoroughly and more accurately. Ind one of those ways is to let scripture interpret scripture.
As guys, we like to act like we have it all together. But more times than we'd like to admit, our greatest enemy is the guy staring back at us from the mirror. Whether we're dealing with a spirit of bitterness or trying to make ourselves look better, our own arrogance and judgmental attitudes toward others often keep us from being the men God created us to be. Solomon understood that character flaw as well as anyone. In today's episode, we'll see how he addressed it in our ongoing study of Proverbs 16.