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


In A Closer Walk, Catherine Marshall 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 criticize anybody about anything.”

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

“That afternoon, a specific, postive vision for this life was dropped into my mind with God’s unmistakeable hallmark on it- joy! Ideas began to flow in a way 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 criticize someone, examine your own life. While you may not commit the same act or have he same habit you’re about to criticize, you probably have some behavior that could be criticized. Don’t stifle your creativity with criticism!


“What do you look at the speck of sawdust in your
brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in
your own eye?
Matthew 7:3
Taken out of the book of “ God’s Devotional for Teen’s.