I apologize for the delay in this week's post. We are studying this week how to identify a critical attitude and replace it. Having a critical attitude causes us to be in the wilderness spiritually. Criticism is to dwell on the perceived faults of another with no view to their good. This type of attitude can eat away at you and pull you further and further away from God.
Let's look at some of the reasons we may have a critical attitude.
* Unforgiveness - Maybe you have not forgiven someone of a wrong they have done and you criticize everything they do. Your criticism is just covering for an unforgiving heart.
* Bitterness - No one can see bitterness, but before long it squirms its way around your heart and strangles your love for God. Bitterness is the pain of heart caused by living apart from God's grace.
* Envy and Resentment - Sometimes we are critical because we are jealous of someone's success and we try to pull that person down to our level.
* Careless, Thoughtless Words - Many times the critical words we say are just careless words, us not thinking before we speak.
* Pride - When we criticize someone, we are really trying to lift ourselves up, to make ourselves look better. Criticism also cloaks insecurity. We criticize to take the focus off of our faults.
This is not a problem with our mouths, it's a problem with our hearts. Through God's Word, we need to do "heart surgery" and remove these attitudes that strangle our love for Him. If we truly study His Word and apply it to our lives, we will have no room for criticism in our hearts and lives.
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