“We have found this man to be a troublemaker, stirring up riots among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect and even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him. By examining him yourself you will be able to learn the truth about all these charges we are bringing against him. The other Jews joined in the accusation, asserting that these things were true.” –Acts 24:5-9. (A very few years later in 70 AD the Jewish temple and all of Jerusalem were leveled to the ground by the Roman army.)
Last night it came to me that I was to write about accusations this morning. I wasn’t comfortable with that so throughout the night I tried to think about something else to write about, but nothing would come to me. Then this morning I came to a blog that I read regularly and saw the Scripture above with the word “accusation.” So I came back into alignment with what I felt prompted to write about last night — one thought at a time.
A society caught up in and swept along by the distractions of angry, unproven accusations cannot long endure.
When accusations are repeatedly made and boldly asserted without solid evidence people will believe and repeat them whether they are true or not.
Often it is the people whose arguments are the weakest who make the loudest accusations.
Accusations aren’t proof, no matter how confidently they’re stated.
The people who resort to unproven accusations are often the guilty ones.
It’s easier to discredit other people’s ideas with smear tactics than it is to promote your own case on its own merit.
If you don’t know the full story, there’s a strong possibility that your accusations are false.
Accusations made by people who refuse to humbly admit their own wrongdoing are usually false.
When a person verbally abuses people until they get mad and return his insults, he usually acts like a victim and says that he’s the one who is being mistreated.
Unproven accusations are often an attempt to divert people’s attention from your own guilt.
Accusations don’t prove anything. Without strong evidence they are only drama that distracts from the truth.
Be slow to believe accusations. There’s a good chance that they aren’t true.
People often use unsubstantiated accusations to try to hide their own insecurity from other people.
The spirit of accusation is the devil, and the Bible specifically calls him the accuser.
The Holy Spirit doesn’t accuse. He knows the full story about each one of us humans. He calls us to His presence and compassionately woos us to turn away from our darkness and deception and toward the honesty and humility of God’s Light.
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