If we find ourselves convicted by the Holy Spirit that we might be exhibiting
a critical spirit, here is another question that would be helpful in dealing
with it. What is it accomplishing? Is our criticism or our complaining doing
anything productive for the Kingdom of God, for our witness, for helping
others?
1. We are to be building up the
kingdom and we do that by building up the lives of others.
2. Jesus called upon us in His Sermon on
the Mount to be ‘peacemakers’.