Use Your Christ-Shield
By Bill Gaultiere © 2010
When someone criticizes you are you defensive? Or do you get angry? Many people I talk to have a hard time responding to criticism because they take it inside and feel bad or they shut down emotionally to protect themselves from feeling bad.
I can relate. For much of my life I felt bad whenever someone criticized me. So I put pressure on myself to succeed and to try to get people to think well of me. That created a lot of anxiety!
I have learned another way. It’s expressed in a favorite little prayer of mine from Psalm 3:3:
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