Amplified Bible
1DO NOT judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves.
2For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others, you will be judged and criticized and condemned, and in accordance with the measure you [use to] deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you.
3Why do you ‡1 stare from without at the ‡2 very small particle that is in your brother's eye but do not become aware of and consider the beam ‡3 of timber that is in your own eye?
4Or how can you say to your brother, Let me get the tiny particle out of your eye, when there is the beam ‡4 of timber in your own eye?
5You hypocrite, first get the beam of timber out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the tiny particle out of your brother's eye.
Dictionary.com
Criticize - to censure or find fault with, to judge or discuss the merits and faults of,
to find fault; judge unfavorably or harshly
I started to title this blog, "Do You Have A Critical?" but I changed it because I don't want you how have this spirit to continue to live in denial. Sometimes we do things without really understanding the we are damaging our own selves in the process. Now, many of you reading this may not realize that what you are doing is setting causing you to fail. This is the reason why your relationships are failing, people don't want to hang with you, they turn the other way when they see you, and you're not invite to special events. Being critical is not a light thing. This has caused the fire and passion in relationships to go out. Nobody wants to share any info with a person like this because all they get is, you should have done this or that could have been better. It's like beating a man when he is down. I placed a scripture for us to look at so we can see how you are only hurting yourself when you criticize someone about every little thing.
Now check that out!!!! You are really judging when you criticize which means that you have already come to a conclusion about the person or situation without having all the necessary facts. It is a standard that you have setup in your mind or you have built your life upon that has become the measure rod by which a person or situation is right or wrong in your own eyes. The danger in this my friend is that by that same measure or standard you criticize, you shall be judge as well. Kinda puts things in prospective huh? You and I cannot afford to operate like this and not look at ourselves. It is so easy to point out other people's faults and short coming without doing a personal inventory of our own lives.
Life is about making decisions and you can start today by being honest with yourself. I really love how God gives us all the opportunity to change our course of action or the way we think. Maybe someone close to you like your mom, dad, sibling, or another authority was that way with you and all you know is that do what was done to you. Let me say today that no matter who they are, they have no power over you. What you do is good enough! You strive to be the best and it is draining you so let it go now. Receive this simply truth that you are good enough. No, not good for nothing but good enough. In order to be free, I ad to start this blog out this way to point out the root so that it could be uprooted out of your life. Now, be free in Jesus name from the critical spirit by embracing what is true and good about you.
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