Tormenting the Tormentor
Torment: The Hebrew term for torment is isorim. As a verb it is described as misery, harass, pester and as a noun –suffering, hardship and affliction.
One dictionary meaning describes it as: To experience severe mental or physical suffering. As children of God, we know who is the source that brings on such misery in our minds and suffering to our bodies.
Do you remember as children playing games in which a coin is tossed to see who would go first? We all would try to call heads first before our opponent even though no one knew how the coin would land. Instinctively, being the head and not the tail sounded better.
Well, as children of God born-again of the Holy Spirit, it is our birthright to be the head and not the tail, above and not beneath (Deuteronomy 28:13, KJV).
We don’t have to accept what the tormentor brings to us as he can only present a lie and not truth. As a matter of fact, we can flip the coin, resist his tactics and torment him back!
You may be wondering; how do we torment the Tormentor? Let’s take the story of Job that most of us find so familiar.
During the testing of his FAITH, Job had three friends that had heard about his misfortune and traveled some distance to comfort him. However, on the contrary, they tormented him relentlessly with their self-righteous attitudes and wrong assumptions. Their words were cruel and harsh instead of compassionate and loving as it should have been. Job could not convince them that he had not sinned against God nor charged him falsely.
As saints of God, we must be diligent in our daily walk ensuring the fruits of the Spirit is being displayed in our behavior and not the spirit of error as we see later on when God revealed himself in a whirlwind to Job and his friends.
Eliphaz the Temanite and his two friends (Bildad and Zophar) were called out by God himself for walking in a spirit of error, saying “My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath (Job 42:7, KJV). Then he made them give a sin offering for misrepresenting him.
Friends, no matter what Job went through, he held on to his integrity. And, God blessed Job for remaining faithful. The tormentor did not accomplish what he set out to do in his life. Job stated “though he slay me yet will I trust in him!” (Job 13:15).
Most of us have not gone through such misery and pain as Job experienced, however we can discern when the tormentor is using people to cause us to falter or give up. As born-again believers, we have the Lamb of God’s blood flowing through our hearts and veins. And as the serpent did not harm the Apostle Paul when he was gathering wood for a fire because he was walking in the authority of the Holy Spirit and washed in the blood of the Lamb, we too have that same birthright and power flowing within us.
No matter what the Tormentor throws at YOU, remember the words of Christ, “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and upon ALL the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you (Luke 10:19).
You have the authority to TORMENT the Tormentor!