The Accuser

Healing of The Heart

THE ACCUSER

I pointed my finger at those who abandoned me, those who took the life of our son, robbed us, disagreed with me, criticized my name, hurt me, and didn’t do what I expected. I criticized them, tore down their name, spoke negatively behind their backs, and accused them of wrongdoing. “Look what you did, you didn’t do this, how could you do that, you should have done this, you are a mess, this is what you are, they will never change, they need prayer,” I said with disgust.

God began to show me that I was the queen of criticism. I had a problem with condemnation, and it was MY heart that was a mess. I was an accuser. A representative of the Accuser himself - Satan. I even condemned God as if I were the perfect one and He was the one with error. Talk about treading on thin ice. The Lord said to me, “You can stand before another as the Accuser or as Christ, but it can’t be both.

The heart of an accuser possesses criticalness, hatred, self-righteousness, pride, anger, bitterness, poor self-worth, division, impatience, and un-forgiveness, which all laid deep within my own heart. Here I was accusing others of wrongdoing when my heart was FULL of its own sin.

When I was in leadership in my chiropractic college and very far away from Christ, I had accused a student of being a pathological liar, believing that it was negatively impacting the college. Through my influence I tried to hold him accountable for his "sin" by having him go before the college faculty. It came back on my own head. The reason - before God, I was just as guilty of sin as he was. My heart full of apostasy, sexual immorality, witchcraft, cheating, lying, anger and rebellion. My self-righteous heart pointing the finger and accusing someone else of their sin, all the while full of my own crap. I was a hypocrite. Little did I realize that I would later be accused of wrong doing in a completely different situation. I reaped what I sowed.

We try to "go after" those who have wronged us, but the truth is we are just as guilty of "wrongdoing" in the eyes of God. All of us - hearts full of sin. Unless we repent.

I wanted to seek revenge on the doctors who had taken the life of our son through drug overdosing, but God said NO. You will be decimated in the process if you take on this beast, for you are no less innocent of sin then them. Purify your own heart and I will teach you through my wisdom, how to overcome the beast.

For how can you take on a wolf when you have become like the wolf. Become like a lamb and I will teach you how to be victorious over the wolf. And He did.

When we voluntarily take people to court, slap them with lawsuits and claims, then we are basically accusing them of wrongdoing.

We are standing on shaky ground and may be decimated in the process. Because if we are standing before them as their accuser and our hearts are full of our own sin as well, then our deeds will return upon our own heads. We will reap what we have sown. For in the eyes of God we are all playing in the same ball field. He says to us, “Have you wronged others too? Have you been deceitful? Have you taken what is not yours to take? So unless we repent of our own sin and wash our robes in the Blood of the Lamb - making things right with our God, then we’re just as guilty as they. Through our repentance and His Word, He teaches His people how to take on the REAL enemy.

So He said to me, "Defeat the enemy in your own heart and I will show you how to be victorious over the Enemy of this world." And He did.

THE ACCUSER IS THE EPITOME OF SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS

Today, many are pointing the finger at each another – accusing people of being racist, full of hatred, unmerciful, bigoted, selfish, white privilege, and a hypocrite. The list of accusations goes on and on. So Jesus says, “What about you? If you are without sin you can cast the first stone.”

It costs us nothing to accuse another, but costs much to look at our own heart and ask God, “Am I standing before another as the accuser himself?”

To point the finger at another is to simply say, “You are the sinner, but I am righteous.”

Standing before another as a representative of Satan or a representative of Jesus is a choice we get to make everyday. It is one or the other.

We can’t pat ourselves on the back for our good and moral works, and then turn around and accuse others of wrong doing. That’s called self-righteousness, hypocrisy and standing before another as the Accuser himself.

To stand before others as Christ, possessing His mercy, is to repent and take responsibility of our OWN sin and our OWN self-righteousness rather than pointing the finger at another.

One speck (sin) in someone’s eye can produce a long plank of sin in us.

How many planks do I have in my eye if others have multiple specks or if I am critical of multiple people? The gift of righteousness means to discern between good and evil. When I see evil, am I going to condemn or contend? I can’t do both.

God said to me once, “I would have used you to be an instrument in her healing, but you kept standing before her in condemnation, you chose to be her accuser.”

Sorrowful repentance overcame me.

The enemy has caused the Bride of Christ to accuse each other and the world. But when we as individuals deal with the plank in our own eye, we are no longer the accuser of our fellow brother or the world. Then, you will see clearly how to help them.

Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. Matthew 7:3-5