Anyone who thinks this has never happened to them, might want to go back and analyze the thoughts and the actions that resulted from the thoughts. Sometimes the thoughts are as simple as concocting in the mind things one wishes to believe about someone without evidence or that is based on gossip.
There are those who are jealous of others, because of this jealousy they justify believing things about others that are not only not true, but that are the way they wish to think about someone.
No one can claim they have not sinned because of their thought life. The sin does not have to be large and clear, it can be as covert as holding an idea of sin against someone without any evidence of it. That is sin, it destroys relationships often triangulating with others in gossip.
Triangulation is when we think we see a sin in someone without evidence but pass the gossip on as though the perceived sin is true. Sometimes its as subtle as generic character flaws without evidence.
I once heard someone say, "that woman is controlling and a usurper." I knew that woman and she was neither. She was assertive when it came to her beliefs and the way of life she chose based on God's Word. The triangulation came about to cause others to disapprove of a woman who had not sinned in her assertiveness and formulation of boundaries. She had merely made it clear what she believed and what she would allow in her life. The narcissist hates boundaries and assertiveness in others, their goal is to control their target. When they find they cannot control them because of their assertiveness and boundaries, they become angry and take their deceptions about that person to the streets, to anyone who will listen.
Notice that their accusations are always generic without detail. They say things like: "she is rude", "she is mean", "she does not have love", when she is not all these things but the gossiper wishes to place thoughts in the minds of those around them. The flying monkeys believe the gossiper because the gossiper is favored by the flying monkeys.
These tactics that are manipulations by the devil through the thought life work very well on those who will not fight the thoughts through the power of the Holy Spirit.
If you have been a narcissist or flying monkey then I would challenge you to evaluate your thought life in prayer to see if the devil is influencing your thoughts to cause division and rage. Jealousy is at the root of many gossipers thought lives. It causes the jealous one to be determined to ruin the one of whom they are jealous, often causing feelings of rage that hide inside until a moment when it can no longer be held inside.
Keep in mind that no one rages instantaneously without a thought life first. Rage only happens when there has been a full and angry thought life before the rage emerges. Those who are not angry or bitter never rage.
Proverbs 22:24
"Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,"
Ecclesiastes 7:9
"Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools."
Proverbs 14:29
"Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly."
As born again believers our goal ought to always be truth. When we seek truth we will take into captivity every thought according to God's Word rather than based on momentary "feelings."
2 Corinthians 10:5
"5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,"
The video below is excellent, speaking of the thought life it brings great insight into the human soul and the tactics of the devil.
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