“Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?”
Psalm 12:4
You close the door and 72 seconds of piercing silence passed by before the conversation begins again.
The officer continues his line of questioning, but this time, because you have been willing to discuss matters in private, his voice becomes less stern.
The officer reveals some things to you.
He begins by saying, that first this is not what you think it is in the common sense. He tells you that you have been set apart because you have been investigated thoroughly and the Lord sees that your heart seeks Him. But your ways remain polluted by what you used to know.
He further tells you that indeed, he is an officer of the Law, he emphasizes that it is the Law of God, not the law of the country.
As your conscience begin to unravel, you become more and more receptive to what the officer is saying.
He explains to you that you have been using your tongue as a weapon more than as a tool of praise and worship. What you don’t understand is that your tongue has been a deadly weapon with other tongues to kill a child of God. The officer helps you to recall a conversation you had naturally about victim A on so-and-so date at so-and-so location.
You remember now that although you did not initiate the conversation about victim A, you participated in condemning the victim in more ways than one. You did not separate yourself from this topic. You did not admonish the company you were with that initiated this killing of God’s child. And then more importantly, you began to agree with what was said and how it was said because you remember an occasion where the victim was unpleasant to you or when you witnessed the victim do something that you did not agree with. In this moment, you became a killer.
Had you known that there was an angel of God sitting right next to you recording what was said, perhaps you would have kept your mouth shut. Or better yet, perhaps you would have ignited a need for prayer for the victim whose character and misdoings were being judged and dissected right in front of you.
When the officer finished, you remained in awe as to how guilty his statements really made you look.
You were speechless. The officer flips the page and proceeds to recount the charges of your involvement in the attempted killings of the other victims he told you about earlier.
