“Forgive me my friend, I have failed you.
I should have realized you were watching me,
Hoping for a glimpse of the Christ I know.”

Remorseful eyes said what the tongue refused to speak, “Guilty of sin, and a disappointment to the Lord.” I said to him, “You should be ashamed of yourself.” He just stared back at me. With nothing left for either of us to say I tried to walk away; but he would not leave me. Each time that I looked back, he was looking back at me. I was the preacher; he was the sinner, and I knew it well because he was also the man in the mirror.

The devil seems to be having his day and we are giving him all the help he wants. We have become a nation of people obsessed with the wrongs of others while ignoring our own. How easily the ‘pointing finger’ writes, and the accusing tongue speaks.

Dare we bring a mirror to the place we pray as we turn accusations into confessions? Do you remember Jesus’ parable about the two who went to the temple to pray? One said, “I thank you God that I am good, and that I am not like that sinner over there.” Over there a broken soul prayed, “Lord have mercy on a sinner like me.” Jesus said that the penitent sinner went home “right with God.” Which one of these are we?

“Forgive me and I will try, my friend.
Forgive me and I will pray,
That He will live His life in me,
Shining forth each day. “