Hey everyone it's Leslie Lutie, host of the Set-A-Part-Grel podcast biblical encouragement for women of all ages.

Today we're going to be diving into the power of encouragement, choosing kindness over criticism. Kindness is something that is so overlooked because it seems

like a maybe a preschool word or something that you learn in Sunday school from

when you're a little kid but think about Proverbs 3126, there's an attribute of godly womanhood, which

is the law of kindness is on her tongue.

And I'm so fascinated by that verse because it clearly shows us that the words we speak are so important

and they should be marked by kindness instead of criticism.

And I think that a lot of us as women can so easily fall into that trap of criticizing others,

being hard on other people, gossiping about other people without even really thinking about it,

or even just being rude to our own

family members. How it says in 1 Corinthians 13 love is not rude and that seems so

elementary and yet how often do we just let those rude or unkind words slip out of

our mouths when we're around our family members and people who maybe are

irritating us or doing something that we don't really approve of or getting under our

skin maybe it's a roommate and you're just kind of in each other's space it's so

easy to let that unkindness and that rudeness take over and kind of shrug it off as if it's not

really a big deal to God. But really is there ever a place for rudeness in the

Christian's life? Sometimes I think we feel like criticism or rude comments towards

others are really justified because maybe we see weaknesses in their lives. We

see things that are not right. We see sin and we want to point that out, but oftentimes we point that

out in a very unkind way.

It says in James 120, the wrath or the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

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