Criticizing Others 11-9-08

Proverbs 29:1
1 Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be destroyed beyond recovery.



Is criticizing others a good thing or a bad thing? Today from my worship practice, I had learned about criticizing which was spoken to Chris (hopefully Chris wouldn't mind me taking this...ehehe). Now back to topic. Is it a bad thing or a good thing?

Criticizing others is a good thing because it not only strengthen others but it also help us learn about our own part that we need to work on. "Criticizing" in the world is not a good word anyone who belongs to the world (likes the world)would like to hear because it hurts their pride. Their pride, their power, and they feel embarrassed but as Christians, we should criticize others and listen so that we can change our self and become closer and more like Christ.

As a person who had just got criticize, I know it hurts because it hurts your pride and you just feel like "I don't want to listen" but I know if I don't listen, then I can't change myself. I would stay at the same pace and pretty soon, I would not care about any criticism and just continue with life. Never improving and never changing again. This is not a good thing because in the same way, if you just block all the good criticism it can be the same as listening to some helping life message and it goes into one ear and comes out the other ear the next minute.

Though criticizing others are a good thing but when we criticize others, we should do it in a respectable, good manner way because if you just speak in a harsh way, you would just hurt their feeling and they would do the same thing as you. You are an example. If you do it in a harsh way, others would follow and pretty soon everyone would not care about their mistakes and just forget it. So please when criticizing others, do it a nice way and don't forget to see if that criticism also relates to your life.