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Lord, Is It I?
While eating the Last Supper Jesus said, “Assuredly, I say to you, one of you who eats with Me will betray Me.” As you can imagine, this declaration caused a great disturbance among the apostles, and one by one they came to Jesus asking, “Lord, is it I?”
We live in a time when people rarely see themselves as the cause of their own problems, so it seems remarkable to us that they’d ask, “Lord, Is it I?” Instead of asking, “Is it Judas? Could it be Peter or John?” each man looked to himself as the potential betrayer.
The secret to real self-improvement is this kind of self-inventory, but too often we allow our pride to get in the way of such an honest examination. It’s so easy for us to see the faults of others while blindly ignoring our own. This is why Peter tells us to be clothed with humility in 1 Peter 5:5. He goes on to say that God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. We need grace to be forgiven, and for that we need humility.
Instead of being so quick to judge others, we need to spend more time simply asking, “Lord, is it I?”
