Jeremiah 20:11 · World English Bible
But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.
A man who has aligned himself with what is highest becomes strangely unafraid of the mob. Jeremiah was mocked and hunted for telling the truth, and he found that the thing standing beside him was not gentle.
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A man who has aligned himself with what is highest becomes strangely unafraid of the mob. Jeremiah was mocked and hunted for telling the truth, and he found that the thing standing beside him was not gentle. It was terrible in the old sense, a power that inspires awe. When you serve that, the crowd loses its grip on you.
Those who build on deceit stumble in the end, and their collapse is remembered. Lies have a short half-life. They cannot bear weight over time, and eventually the whole edifice comes apart and shames the men who raised it. The man who tells the truth may suffer, but he is still standing when their schemes have fallen into confusion.
Clinical Psychology lens
What would I say today if I were not counting who would be on my side afterward?
The one who does not contend with the crowd cannot be opposed by it. What bends with truth outlasts what hardens into display.
No mob can touch what is actually yours, your judgment and your choices. They can only threaten the things that were never in your keeping.
Act because the act is right, not because the result will favor you. The man rooted there is not shaken by praise or by hatred.
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