Thursday, May 25, 2006

the Nothingness of Criticism

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ~Elbert Hubbard

that quote about sums up my evening. sometimes i have to wonder why some people just have to criticise others... and they do it in the name of Jesus.

but that's not the Jesus i know.

my Jesus is Love... He has patience, and is infinately kind... He does not envy, parade Himself, or get puffed up. He does not behave rudely, does not seek His own, is not provoked, and thinks no evil. He does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in Truth. He bears all my screw-ups, believes in me, hopes in me, and endures all things.... even to the point of death.

we need to, in conforming ourselves to the image of Christ, give our brothers and sisters in the Lord some slack. because...

...But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:8-13, NKJV.

all the reasons we *think* we have for criticizing other people are gonna VANISH. let us not judge another man's servant - for that Man is the Lord Jesus Christ, and i am not your servant, i am Jesus'. you are not my servant, you are Jesus'. to our own Master we will rise or fall, we have not business trying to make the other person rise when we think they should... or fall when we think they should. that is God's authority alone. we are simply called have love for one another. come, beloved, let us love one another.... for they will know we are His by the way we love one another.
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