Self-Justification

"You yourselves will not be the speakers; the Spirit of your Father will be speaking in you" (Matthew 10:20).

A pastor friend once told me, "True meekness is lack of self-justification." I had gone to him about a lady in the church who was grafting onto the grapevine all sorts of rotten rumors. We all wanted some holy revenge. His statement helped us realize that revenge was God's business, not ours. I also recalled something I had read years before: