Ultimate Security: Finding A Refuge In Difficult Times - Plot & Excerpts
Protection Against Criticism and Misrepresentation 20 PROTECTION AGAINST CRITICISM AND MISREPRESENTATION In the last several chapters, we have been focusing on the quest for emotional security. Two of the most vicious enemies of emotional security are criticism and misrepresentation. A main weapon Satan uses against God’s people is the tongue. The enemy’s very name in the New Testament, “the devil,” means “the slanderer.” That is his nature. He is the slanderer and the accuser. Very often, he will influence human tongues to be used against believers in Jesus. He does not come to us in person. Instead, he secretly, invisibly, takes control of human tongues and turns them against God’s people—using the words of others to slander, to accuse, to criticize, and to misrepresent. When Satan Attacks Us Through Others Jeremiah the prophet understood what it means to be criticized and misrepresented. It was revealed to him that his enemies were saying, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah.…Let’s attack him with our tongues…”
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