“Don’t speak evil against each other, my dear brothers and sisters. If you criticize each other and condemn each other, then you are criticizing and condemning God’s law. But you are not a judge who can decide whether the law is right or wrong. Your job is to obey it.”
James 4:11 (NLT)

OCTOBER 22 - “And he calls himself a minister of the Gospel—with a family like that?” The moment his son was arrested was the exact moment criticism began—from the media, family members, and even the church.
Have you realized yet that a critical spirit attempts to infiltrate the body of Christ? Well, I am certain of this: Criticism keeps many people from receiving the promises of God. God simply does not permit us to speak against one another! Speaking against your brother in Christ condemns God’s law and brings us under judgment. In Proverbs 18:2, Solomon tells us, “A fool has no delight in understanding, but in expressing his own heart.” The apostle Paul exhorts us to, “Let no unwholesome word proceed out of your mouth, but
what is good for the necessary edification that it may impart grace to the hearers.”

Are we guilty? Many of us are. We must, however, be willing to change what we say and put a bit in our mouths in order to see God’s hand rest upon our lives. We no longer can allow ourselves to believe
that Heaven gives us the freedom to be critical and air our own opinions. This critical spirit separates the body of Christ. God abhors this because it brings discord among the brethren, according to Proverbs
6:19. No Godly fruit is ever produced from a critical heart. May the words we speak build up others and impart grace to the hearer.

Father, I thank You that my job is to obey the law, and I do so without criticizing or condemning. I let no unwholesome word proceed from my mouth, but I only speak that which is edifying to the hearer.

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Matthew 27

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