You may be the kind of person who criticizes others. You look to find fault, no matter what the other person does. And it does not matter how good someone else does something, there is always some fault you can find.
On the other hand, you may not be quick to judge others, but you associate with people who do. You may even pride yourself in being different from them. Just know that as you associate with critical people before long their influence will rub off on you. It may be a slow and gradual process but the process will occur.
In discussing criticism an unknown author has this to say, “It is easy to find fault but hard to find what to do with it.” As you criticize others, what do you do with those critical findings? You use those to criticize even more. It snowballs and one critical comment turns into another.
David wrote many of the Psalms. In one Psalm he stresses how you are to use your tongue: “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer” (19:14; NASV). This verse takes your speech a little further than just what you say. Notice, it tells you that the words you say should be those that you would use in addressing the Lord. Then it takes those words a step further to show they should reflect those inner thoughts to be acceptable, too. It is when your speech and your inner thoughts are those acceptable by the Lord that finds favor with the Lord.
Put that fault finding behind you. If you are doing it, stop it right now. If you are not finding fault with others, just don’t start.
There is a better way to use your speech. Use it to find favor with the Lord in your word and your thoughts!
