Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
22 This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord. Psalm 35:21-23
Everyone of us can fall into the trap of being a fault finder. What kind of things make you prone to fault-finding? What can you do to avoid fault-finding?
Lillie-Put 
Bottom line, they don’t act like I think they should–(I’m nothing if not honest, Pastor J). To avoid it–some days I just know I don’t have much grace, so I avoid “communicating” with anyone. Today, I should have done that…oh well, there’s always tomorrow (unless we get Raptured).
I am with you on this Stella. There are days I wish I could just seal myself in my office because what is coming out my mouth is not grace filled. I am working on that. I have a really good example of gracious communication in my lead pastor. I find it hard to emulate.
That can be a double-edged sword, having someone you emulate–because I find my admiration sometimes trips me up when I can’t rise to their level of saintliness…and that is strictly from the devil, I believe. As he never feels we’re “doing enough”, or “doing well enough”–and that’s not God at all.
Hmm. You are right in that. At the same time we do sharpen each other like iron sharpens iron. When it becomes condemnation rather than challenge I think a boundary has been crossed.