Criticism is defined by Collins English dictionary as the act or an instance of making an unfavourable or severe judgement, comment,etc and is the occupation of the critics. People will criticize you based on the angle they are viewing from. They are sitting on the back end of the elephant and so they don't believe that it has a trunk. They believe that their own angle is the only plausible view and it's a stance like this that caused people like Hitler, Idi Amin,etc to rise to power. Cowards rise to power when they control your perpectives and make you think that their myopic thinking is the way the world aught to be. But they fail to realize that their own pattern of reasoning and way of assessment is just a microscopic section of a much bigger picture in which mature people learn to think and fit. They fail to appreciate the blessedness of a grander view... Bishop T.D. Jakes calls this type Positional Criticism. This arises based on the perspective and priorities of the critic. They criticize you because you don't align with their perspective. Your style strangulates their strength. A lot of times people don't criticize you because they are evil but because they've been trained to think a certain kind of way and whoever doesn't do same is an enemy. They don't value what you value, their principles they make to stifle people and are a slave to their principles. Now we have different sects, religious bodies and denominations who dress a certain kind of way, eat certain food, behave according to what's laid down for them and they feel that that's how it must be. No!

Institutional Criticism means to criticize a behavior that is out of context with their point of reference. You are not normal to them. You don't fit institutionalized thinking. They say "we don't do this here, this is not acceptable here..." As if there can be no other evn better way of doing that same thing. Based on their limited experience, they want you to acquiesce to who they are at the expense of who you are. The critics make themselves the sole authority and their judgement must be final. They criticize you because you don't fit their pattern of thinking.

They want you to act like them, move like them, participate like them forgetting the fact that we are different and unique in our differences. Anytime you don't fit an institution, they will criticize you. And that's because you threaten the institution with your distinction. You are just living you life according to the template provided us in Jesus through His Word and they become critical because their lives have always revolved about a prototype that's different from their view. They say, "who does he think he is? Are we not as much Christian as he is? Is it not the same bible we read that he reads?..."

Paul said, "We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed- always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our body." 2Cor 4:8-10.

Don't Be Crushed. Rise Above Hate. Soar On Criticism. God bless us.