"Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night."Rev. 12:10
If human beings, generally, realized how much disease and destruction and suffering is produced by personal accusing and condemnatory thinking, they would stop indulging it. The accuser in one's thinking is a dangerous thing. It is always followed by a condemning state of thought. Personal accusing and condemning are among the worst forms of hate, though this is largely unrecognized. There is no love in this kind of thinking.
Our great Way-shower, Christ Jesus, detected and refused to harbor the accuser. For example, on one occasion the scribes and Pharisees brought to him a woman taken in adultery (see John 8:3–11). They said the law demanded that she be stoned, but what did he say? Jesus didn't answer but stooped down and wrote in the dust. They continued to question him, so he stood up and said to them, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." With this they all departed, and Jesus was left alone with the woman. He said to her, "Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?" And when she told him that no one had, he said, "Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more." Jesus did not accuse either the woman or the men. He rebuked the errors that claimed to be attached to them.
