Be Careful When Pointing Your Finger

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Have you heard the cliche' "be careful when pointing your finger at others because you have four pointing bac at you". We tend to forget this as we criticize others for how they minister or work. We ignore this fact when we are busy trying to discredit another, usually, to make one's self appear better. Here are a couple of examples: 1. Conservatives pastors often, from the pulpit, bash health and wealth preachers. Now, while I am not a fan of health and wealth preaching, I think our time could be better spent learning about God and serving others. What I have seen is that those who are bashing the health and wealth teachers are, in fact themselves, become a wealth and wealth teacher. They do this with their sermons about how giving more money to the church will automatically cause God to bless the giver with more money. 2. There are those who criticize other, as far as appearance. The thing that most prominently comes to mind, is how some of my peers as teenagers would make fun of classmates for being fat. Now twenty years later, the ones poking fun are the fat ones. *I have always been over weight, so I can say the word "fat". Don't anyone flip out, thinking I am being mean. I am just making a point. That point is, we all need to be careful of engaging in the habit of criticism. There is so much more we can do to make our time positively productive.