Comparing Sin

This has always been sort of a pet peeve for me. As humans, we tend to see other people's sin as worse than ours and judge them according to our faulty reasoning. However, someone came up with a comparison that I thought was brilliant. I wanted to share and get your opinion on it.

Sin is like quarters balanced on the top of our heads. Humans walk around life, comparing their stack to other's stacks. Who's is taller? Wow! Look at that guy! It's nearly hitting the ceiling! But, God looks down from Heaven, and all He can see is that there is a quarter there. Therefore, we are all in need of salvation. That's why He sent His Son. Not because one's sin is worse than the other's, but because everywhere He looked, there was a quarter!

Does that make sense to y'all?

yes, that makes perfect sense. good one. never heard this one before.

I think I tried to stop judging when I realized that I had literally broken all 10 Commandments. So who am I to judge anyone else? We are all sinners together every single one of us and like you said we all have at least one quarter on top of our heads. God sees us all with quarters. Liked your story.

comparison is a toxic game to play

Matthew 7:3
Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

Pretty much sums up for something like this. People tend to forget or they try to suppress their own short comings by seeing someone else stumble before them, sometimes maybe even thinking that they're doing so for the greater good when it could in fact do the opposite. Not saying that we should keep quiet for when someone does something wrong, but there's a difference on shunning a person out and trying to correct them from their mistakes. The Pharisees example of how they lived out their lives before Jesus as well as others who broke their traditions show this.

I think it was Hobbes that touched upon the notion that everyone has self interest and is, therefore, in some capacity, selfish. We might say that this self centered-ness is something that contributes to people's misplaced judgement.

We humans just have a need to be important wanted or significant. The devil has designed a world with lots of fun easy choices for "fellowship".

I find myself almost doing it sometimes too. Like "This isn't a big deal others do - nononono it's sin. Sin is sin."

A sin is a sin does not matter how little or large.

I'll tell something that happened this summer.
There was a demon who wanted to attack me. but i was protected buy god, so it could not do anything. So what do you think he made me do?
A sin. Believe it or not it, he made me do it in a dream.
In the dream I was seeing something happening, i dont rember what. But i didn't take any action. Exactly that second i realised that i had done a passive sin and at the same time he entered me. My whole body felt heavy and it was hard to breath. I dont know how but i was totaly calm, i knew i had sined and i was being possed. I believe God told me everything and hold me calm. I said in the name of jesus leave my body, repeatly untill he left me. And I'm pretty sure i was protected by the hand of God all along.

It is really easy to give satan the chance he wants Matthew 12:43 also tells us that if you dont have God in your hearth it will come back and even bring with him several more.

The things i want you to remember is!
The size of the sin doesn't matter, one sin can be enough.
Don't be afraid as long as Jesus lives in you, there will be no place for anybody else.

We all have our favorite brand of sin.
We all have a tendency to judge those who like a different brand.
But those who like the same brand become best friends.

Or sometimes we judge someone harshly because deep down we see ourselves in them and don't like what we see. The mind is a tricky sucker.

okay, good. so, does someone love sin and want to hold onto it? does someone love the log in their eye and want to keep it?


or, by faith, through grace...... can they do as it is written, but NO ONE READS ---- AFTER they take the log out of their own eye, then
they can SEE CLEARLY to help their brother take the tiny little speck out of his eye. see? no log. no speck. we all HELP one another ....


or, to put it another way,

read 1st John(and Hebrews) to see how to get rid of all the quarters, even IF they keep returning.(7x70 times in one hour !!! ).

For some, sin is like a mirage, the closer they come to it, the further away it seems to get.

(in other words, we are good at redefining it, so it's not our sin in question).