There is great clatter
in the forges and smithies of the enemy. They are making weapons
wherewith to smite the saints.
They could not even do as much as this if
the LORD of saints did not allow them; for He has created the smith
that bloweth the coals in the fire.
But see how busily they labor! How
many swords and spears they fashion!
It matters nothing, for on the
blade of every weapon you may read this inscription: It shall not
Prosper.
But now listen to another noise: it is the strife of tongues.
Tongues are more terrible instruments than can be made with hammers and
anvils, and the evil which they inflict cuts deeper and spreads wider.
What will become of us now? Slander, falsehood, insinuation,
ridicule-these are poisoned arrows; how can we meet them?
The LORD God
promises us that, if we cannot silence them, we shall, at least, escape
from being ruined by them.
They condemn us for the moment, but we shall
condemn them at last and forever.
The mouth of them that speak lies
shall be stopped, and their falsehoods shall be turned to the honor of
those good men who suffered by them.
~Charles Spurgeon~
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