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AndyBern -> RE: Devotionals/resources for wrongly convicted (7/1/2009 8:50:39 AM)
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Is this conviction from other believers? If so, then it needs to be dealt with from their side also.
In the meantime, I don't have any devotional material on this, however here are a few hopefully relevent passages to think about:
Luke 6:22: Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
Matthew 10:25: It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
Matthew 27:39: Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,
Luke 7:33-34: For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
I Peter 2:23: Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
Not to say that self-defense is wrong, but there was one Chinese Christian who did not defend himself against false accusations - he just trusted God to vindicate him. Something like David.
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