When you are accused of anything there is an immediate mechanism that kicks into place as a shield around you. Accusation brings the involuntary activation of justification. None of the logical parameters of fact are considered initially when personal accusations are unleashed. Justification demands an equal audience to the accusation.
The dictionary defines justifications as: a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends. In this life there can be only one place of justification for the Believer. If we are not justified by God, through faith, we are without hope. Reading Psalms has made this more clear to me than ever before.
Listen to David’s cry for God to be his judge in Psalm 7:1-7, “O LORD my God, I take refuge in You; save and deliver me from all who pursue me, or they will tear me like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me. O LORD my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands-if I have done evil to him who is at peace with me or without cause have robbed my foe- them let my enemies pursue and overtake me; let him trample my life to the ground and make me sleep in the dust. Selah. Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the rage of my enemies. Awake, my God; decree justice. Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity, O Most High. O righteous God, who searches minds and hearts, bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure. My shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart. God is a righteous judge, a God who expresses His wrath every day. If He does not relent, He will sharpen His sword; He will bend and string His bow. He has prepared His deadly weapons; He makes ready His flaming arrows. He who is pregnant with evil and conceives trouble gives birth to disillusionment. He who digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit He has made. The trouble he causes recoils on himself; his violence comes down and on his own head. I will give thanks to the LORD because of His great righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.”
Make this personal with me. Insert your name where I am praying mine: “O LORD my God, Greg Manuel take refuge in You; save and deliver Greg Manuel from all who pursue me, or they will tear me like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue Greg Manuel. O LORD my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands-if I have done evil to him who is at peace with me or without cause have robbed my foe- them let Greg Manuel’s enemies pursue and overtake him; let him trample Greg Manuel’s life to the ground and make me sleep in the dust. Selah. Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the rage of Greg Manuel’s enemies. Awake, my God; decree justice. Judge Greg Manuel, O LORD, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity, O Most High. O righteous God, who searches minds and hearts, bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure. Greg Manuel’s shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart. God is a righteous judge, a God who expresses His wrath every day. If He does not relent, He will sharpen His sword; He will bend and string His bow. He has prepared His deadly weapons; He makes ready His flaming arrows. He who is pregnant with evil and conceives trouble gives birth to disillusionment. He who digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit He has made. The trouble he causes recoils on himself; his violence comes down and on his own head. I will give thanks to the LORD because of His great righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.”
Blessings and peace be upon you today.
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