Go Ahead and Accuse Me, OK?: Hope In The Judgement
Imagine a courtroom. You’re the one on trial. There’s a prosecutor—relentless, smug, armed with receipts. He lists your failures, exposes private shame, names every time you gave in, gave up, lashed out, broke down. You shrink. He’s not wrong. But then you notice something: The prosecutor isn’t neutral. He’s the one who tempted you. The very one accusing you of falling… is the one who set the trap. This is not fiction. Scripture tells us there is an accuser—Satan—whose name literally means the accuser . (Revelation 12:10) His strategy? First, seduce. Then, shame. He lures us into destruction… then condemns us for being destroyed. But Jesus steps into the courtroom. And His judgment flips the entire system. Take the woman in John 8, dragged into public by religious leaders, caught in adultery. According to the law, she deserved death. But notice what Jesus did: He exposed the accusers , not the accused. He wrote something in the dust—mysterious, maybe the sins of the cro...