I think one of the hardest things to do is to remain positive in the face of criticism,

especially if there are false criticism. I think one of the hardest things is to know how to turn

an oppressive environment into an opportunity.

One of the hardest attitudes, at least for me to have, is how to remain loving toward a

critical person, even if that person is falsely accusing you.

And I know this happens probably every single day. A husband comes home

from work, he had a bad day, got lots of problems, and he comes home and takes it on his wife,

accuser of all kinds of things. How to remain positive in the midst of that. A wife who had a hard day with kids,

as soon as her husband walk in, wham! She gave poor the whole thing on him. How to remain positive

in the midst of that. Teenagers come home and they have had a hard day at school or somebody

said something to them and they come and they take their anger on their parents.

How to remain positive. How to turn that oppressive situation into an opportunity.

Why false criticism is really devastating in many ways? Why is it so destructive? I want you to listen to me very carefully.

Because false criticism is dangerous not only for those who are being criticized,

but is really even more dangerous to the critical person. That's why it's destructive.

False criticism creates a poisonous environment, a poisonous atmosphere for everybody.

And in John chapter 7, the Lord Jesus Christ himself spoke of the danger of the critical spirit

as it manifested itself among the Pharisees.

How?

Because when you develop and when you nurture and when you cultivate the critical spirit, listen to me carefully, you will foster gossip and

bagpiting and even worse. But here's something about critical people. Those who indulge in the critical spirit

are always, almost always, I'm going to be careful, almost always hypersensitive toward other's

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