Choose Encouragement Over Judgment...

(Choose Encouragement Over Judgment) - My beloved ??, Satan loves to put judgmental, critical, suspicious thoughts about other people into our minds. If you do have an opinion about someone, unless it is encouraging, keep it to yourself. Instead of gossiping, pray. Finding fault with others can cause us to ignore our own problems. I have known people who were very sinful, yet they were very judgmental and critical of others. I finally realized that they viewed and spoke about others so negatively because that kept them from having to face the truth about themselves. Pray for people to see truth and be very careful about forming and sharing hasty or premature opinions. Matthew 7:1-2 (NIV)