Stay on the Wall

This is a wonderful inspirational message written by my sister's pastor in Lubbock, Texas.  I think it is very applicable to Natural Healing...enjoy...

  

 

 

Stay on the Wall

 

If you have achieved, or are achieving, any measure of success, you will have your critics. Critics are hecklers, not helpers. They don’t play in the game but tell others how they should play the game. I heard once “criticism is the death gargle of an underachiever.”

 

How many monuments throughout history have been built to a critic? Critics are self-loathing people who have defined their own life by their personal failures and live their life to point out the failures of others. Stop listening to your critics. Embrace conflict and healthy debate which can unleash great potential and creativity. Never be afraid of the truth. Be rigorous in your pursuit of facts to improve your performance. While Nehemiah was rebuilding the wall in Jerusalem he had many critics, two in particular that did everything they could to get him down off of the wall. They ridiculed him, mocked him and threatened him. They did just about everything imaginable to get him to quit but he refused to be distracted.

 

So we rebuilt the wall, which was rebuilt to about half its {original} height.

The people worked with determination.

Nehemiah 4:6 (GW)

 

Always be open to change your course mid-steam. Listen to wise counsel. Receive correction from those who have your best interest at heart. Remember however, you don’t owe anything to a critic. Take your queue from Jesus-He ignored His critics-He didn’t waste His time answering them. A critic is a sign that you must be doing something right.

 

As Aristotle wrote: "It's easy to avoid criticism: all you have to do is say nothing, do nothing, be nothing."

 

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