Button That Pocket, Soldier!

There was a military officer that was conducting an inspection of some new recruits that had just come in. This officer approached an E-2 (private), freshly arriving out of basic training. 

He stopped face-to-face in front of the young man whose pulse could be seen throbbing in his throat. The first thing that caught this officer's eye was an unbuttoned pocket on the shirt of the young enlisted man's uniform. 

The officer barked out in his best command voice, "Button that pocket soldier!" 

The young soldier turned about three shades of red. He looked right, then he looked left, and then he sheepishly asked, "Right now sir?" T

he officer said, "Of course, right now! When did you think I meant for you to do it?" 

The private handed the officer his weapon and with both hands trembling, reached out and buttoned the flap on the officer's shirt pocket.

Why are we so quick to see a speck in someone else's eye but not a plank in our own eye? 

Jesus said, "And beholdest thou  the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, let me pull out  the mote out of thine eye; and behold a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye." (Matthew 7:3-5) 

What some great food for thought!