Criticism is cheap! Unless you are disciplined, you will not need to look far before you find something or someone to criticize. Incidentally, most criticisms are baseless for two reasons. Firstly, it is hardly possible to know the full condition of the one we are criticizing. If we get to know their state, we would be sorry for dabbling into matters beyond our knowledge. Secondly, sooner than later, we may find ourselves culpable for the things we criticized others. I write this as a victim.
After our two-week stay in the United States, my sister-in-law was driving us to JFK to catch our flight back to Nigeria on the morning of Tuesday August 19, 2023. That early morning, a young man sauntered across the road with a bottle of Coke in his hand. While I was thinking of what he was doing with Coke that early, my sister-in-law echoed the same sentiments. We both dismissed the man. Twenty-four hours later we arrived in Nigeria. Feeling uneasy at some point in the flight, coupled with the hot temperature on arrival that morning, I fetched a bottle of cold Pepsi Cola from the fridge! I became guilty of what I accused someone of the previous day. Jesus recommended that we should look to ourselves and deal with our faults before descending on others. If we pay due attention to ourselves, we will have little time left to criticise others.
