Criticism

The expression of disapproval or an opinion of someone or something based off of perceived faults or mistakes.

Happiest of Saturday to you Champions! Whatever you do today, be all in and sold out. Choose wisely!

This morning as my feet hit the floor the word criticism came to my mind. I couldn't shake it, so here we are. It is so easy to criticize, isn't it? So easy to be a Monday morning quarterback, so to speak. Then I can remember so many meetings that I have been in, where I've been told, corrective criticism is a good thing. Pondering over all of this and all I have is...Wow!

Then the questions came.

Criticizing or judging?

Building up or tearing down?

Constructive or destructive?

I don't know about you, but those questions certainly made me think. It is so easy to say what we would have done or how someone else could have done it better. Is the motive behind the criticism to help or make someone stronger? Or just another opportunity to express our opinion on how we think something should be. The true critique should come from God's word. Now there's something that will provide us with all the answers we need. Don't get me wrong, there is those special people God sends to you that will provide you with advice given out of love and truth. Unfortunately, more times than enough, we encounter just the opposite. I encourage you today to choose your words wisely and maybe even extend a little grace. Just my two cents. Be crazy amazing today because you can be!

Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

Matthew 7:1-5