"The accuser of our brethren"is the devil and God is not the only one who has to listen to him day and night.
He is the voice in your head that is accusing, laying blame, telling on, lying about your friends, family, co-workers and even yourself, sowing discord, destroying relationships, distracting you from your walk with God.
When we choose to believe him and then speak the accusations he has planted, we kill not only friendships, and marriages, but even careers. Not many of us are murderers, but we often assassinate a person's character and think nothing of it. "The accuser" spreads destruction.
"Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully." (Psalms 52:2 NKJV)
"The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." (John 10:10 NKJV
"But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison." (James 3:8 NKJV)
No, as men we are unable to tame the tongue. But God can change our heart!
When we start dealing with the sin we have hidden in our heart; when we repent of the things we have said and done and ask for forgiveness for the judgements we have made, then God starts changing our heart!
We have so many walls built up in our hearts of past hurts and defiant proclamations, often originating from childhood. Those walls of protection as children, are barriers to God as adults. He wants to tear them down and clean out all of the garbage stashed behind and in the darkest recesses. He wants to shine a light on the filth and pain and bring healing. You can't just "forget" and "leave behind"; which the devil knows just increases the security of those fortifications. Jesus doesn't just want one room in your heart. The walls must be torn down to make room for His total inhabitation.
You say you have forgiven. You say you have been forgiven. You also say you cannot forget. You back bite, you ridicule, you jest; you say you love, but your tongue hurts.
"A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks." (Luke 6:45 NKJV)
"Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another." (Galatians 5:19-26 NKJV)
"But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment."(Matthew 12:36 NKJV)
It is imperative that we deal with our stuff here, so we won't have to deal with it then!
Repent while there is still time!
Even so - MARANATHA!
From 6/3/15
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