Devotion Of The Day!

Whatever you dislike in another person, take care to correct yourself.

In A Closer Walk, Catherine Marshell writes: "One morning last week He gave me an assignment: for one day I was to go on a 'fast' from criticism. I was not to criticise anyone about anything."

"For the first half of the day, I simply felt a void, almost as if I'd been wiped out as a person. This was especially true at lunch....I listened to others and kept silent....In our talkative family no one seemed to notice. Bemused, I noticed that my comments were not missed. The federal government, the judicial system, and the institutional church could apparently get along fine without my penetrating observations. But still I didn't want to what this fast on criticism was accomplishing-until mid afternoon."

"That afternoon, a specific, positive vision of life dropped into my mind with God's unmistakable hallmark on it-joy! Ideas began to flow away everything that I had not experienced in years. Now it was apparent what the Lord wanted me to see. My critical nature had not corrected a single one of the multitudinous things I found fault with. What it had done was to stifle my own creativity."

Before you are tempted to criticise someone, examine your own life. While you may not commit the same act or have the same habit you're about to criticise, you probably have some behavior that could be criticised. Don't stifle your creativity with criticism!

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?"

Matthew 7:3