The Gospel calls us to look differently at our lives and ask God to reveal the Sin that holds us bound. We need to look for the Sin that is the source of all other sins in our lives.
If there is a message in this very well-known Gospel today, it is to cut others slack when they don’t act or respond in the most appropriate way. We don’t walk in their shoes. We don’t know their hearts. We don’t know the burdens they carry.
Our False Self continually wants to look good in the world. It is also called the small self or the ego. The False Self takes offense, compares, critiques, judges, and blames.