IS IT TRUE THAT WE ARE CARRYING STONES IN OUR LIFE AGAINST OTHERS?

 

 Mmmmmmmm , "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her." (John 8:7)

Do you remember the source of this quotation from the bible? It is from the story of the woman surrounded by a mob of angry men, all gathered round her each with a stone in their hand. Jesus saved her from stoning by challenging the enraged men, saying, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her." (John 8:7)

Have you tried to evaluate yourself, you will agree with me that each and every one of us carries a stone. The stones may be in form of our resentment, angry feelings, a thirst for revenge. We are full of these things because we can't get what we want, and in our frustration and anger we have to blame someone else and ready to punish others and not yourself.  

 

The problem is that we are ruled by our desires. Wow if we are not ready to control our desire the end result is being angry, resentful then cultivating a thirst for chaos and revenge.  By doing so we are automatically  carrying a certain stone. 

When Jesus challenged the crowd to produce someone without sin to cast the first stone, he was demanding that someone step away from the crowd and take responsibility for the violence himself.  surprisingly  even those people who consider themselves as perfect people were reluctant to take this step, and so in this story we find that nobody came forward to cast the first stone.

 The natural human response when someone offends us is to condemn them, which does two things.

• First, it gives rise to hate, which results in either escalating offences against each other, or resolving our conflict by our blaming and then victimizing an innocent scapegoat.

•  Second, when we judge and condemn another, we deflect attention from our own contribution to the conflict. While it is often hard for us to see, we are almost always partially to blame when there is conflict that offends us.

Be careful judge not: