Are you critical? I am, or at least, I can be. Just ask my wife. My wife was busting it the other day, cleaning our home and what do I do? I walk right in, never say a word about her busting it on cleaning the house; rather I ask her if she had paid the bills yet. Wrong answer! She handled it graciously, but I knew I had hurt her feelings. So, I apologized and told her how she rocks my world by the way she takes care of our home. The point of this story: I am critical by nature.

I think a lot of people are critical by nature. It is easy to point out everything that seems so obvious to us and not so clear to others. Of course the only reason it is so obvious to us is because our vision is so skewed by the plank that is in our eye. (See Luke 6:42) Why is it that we are so critical? Sinfulness, to be exact. And how do we fix it? James 1:19 gives us the answer. "let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger." If we could just learn to not open our mouth so often, we might not be so critical of others. Oh well, that is my confession for the day. Don't be so critical and learn to keep my mouth shut. It might be good advice for you too.