Can you imagine waking up today having had a restless night with condemning thoughts and then going through the day having doubts about your abilities and who you are?
Of course you can.
Some reading this today will have woken in the night thinking of that accusation they are facing. Some are in the middle of it right now, they are under investigation, fingers are being pointed and stones are being thrown for the accuser is at work.
Can you imagine in all of that trying to be the best you can be for others, yourself and for God?
I’ve got some news!
“Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.” (Revelation 12 v 10)
The accuser is defeated, he is hurled down.
When God looks at you, when He investigates you, what does he find? It is not what your accuser wants you to know.
One of the most destructive events in the Bible, the plague on Egypt, was prevented from coming on the people of God because of the blood that was on their houses. But see this:
Exodus 12:13. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
When I see the blood. 12:23. When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
When I see the blood, it doesn’t say when you see it. It is what God finds on you. He finds the sacrifice of His Son. He finds His righteousness placed on you. He finds no condemnation. He finds grace, mercy and forgiveness.
Colossians 3:3 “For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.”
What people find is immaterial. What your enemies find matters not. Even what you may find in your self-condemnatory life does not count. It is what HE finds that counts.
I do love Chris Tomlins song ‘Indescribable’. It is a song that is trying to describe the indescribable God. It is a bit like John describing his vision. He is high, He is deep, no one can fathom Him, He is uncontainable, all powerful, untameable and we are awestruck. However, it is almost the last line of the song which I particular value: “You see the depths of my heart and you love me the same”. YOU SEE. That is the point. Our faith needs to be on what He sees.
If we lived our life on what He sees and what He finds and not what we know and what the accuser says then maybe we will live better and perhaps the many decisions of life will be easier.
Our Father in heaven sees and finds the blood of Christ, we are hidden in Him!
The accuser is thrown down.
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