Galations 5:15 - Devouring each other

From the epistle reading at Mt Olive on July 1: Galations 5:15:

NIV: If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be
destroyed by each other.

NLT: But if instead of showing love among yourselves you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another.

Does this verse speak to our critical spirits? A few examples that occurred to me:

• When two or more of us criticize the lack of work others do in the church.


• When we express our dissatisfaction with the hymns for the day.


• When we have expectations that others should behave as we think we do and we voice our dissatisfaction about their behavior.


• When we judge before we learn.

Things to think about:

• Is there a cure for the critical spirit?


• Whose responsibility is it to lead the way to change?


• Can we make this change on our own?


• How do we stomp the critical spirit within our own selves?