What Would Oswald Chambers Post on Social Media? The Uncritical Temper

“Judge not, that you be not judged.” 

We see where things are wrong and we’ll often pull the other person to bits. But Jesus says, “As a disciple, cultivate the uncritical temper.”  

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour.  

The only person who can criticize human beings is the Holy Spirit. 

Criticism is deadly in its effect because it divides a man's powers and prevents his being a force for anything.

The Holy Spirit alone is able to show what is wrong without wounding.

The effect of my criticism is to paralyze the other person's powers which proves that the criticism did not come from the Holy Spirit.

Beware of anything that puts you in the superior person's place.

The counsel of Jesus is to abstain from judging.

When the Holy Spirit reveals something of the nature of sin and unbelief in another, His purpose is not to make me feel the smug satisfaction of a critical spectator - but to make me lay hold of God for that one that God enables him to turn away from the wrong thing.

Our Lord makes no room for criticism in the spiritual life, but He does make room for discernment and discrimination.

If we let these searchlights (discernment and discrimination) go straight down to the root of our spiritual life, we will see why Jesus says - "Don't judge, we won't have time to."

"Judge not" - why are we always at it?

Jesus says of criticism, apply it to yourself, never to anyone else.

Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God.

Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person.

I never met a man I could despair of after discerning what there lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Stop having a measuring rod for others.

There is always one fact more in every life of which we know nothing, therefore Jesus says - "Judge not."