[pelathais]

I have had similar vindications. The most prominent thing that I see however, is that the same lunkheads who were pointing the finger at you all along are just too thick to understand the vindication when it arrives. For them, it's just another "trial" to endure.

The ability to connect the dots and see the bigger picture is not something that I've seen in Pentecostal/Apostolic churches a lot. I'm not trying to get a dig against "us" in here; it's just that this is the group that I have been most closely associated with in matters of personal worth and vindication, if vindication ever comes.

I had one philandering evangelist set the stage for me to be fired and run out of the church. When he was through using the church 13 weeks later and ran off with his secretary (so cliché), even the pastor who was privy to the adultery all along wasn't interested in seeing me vindicated. He was primarily worried that I would "spill the beans" and kept the ban against me in force. No real vindication there, though that represent what was perhaps the greatest trial of my life. Even though that church doesn't even exist any more, the official ban was never publicly lifted. I was allowed to come back for a while, but the lies and hypocrisy proved too much for me. They bitterly and falsely accused me in front witnesses, but then they thought that I'd be happy just "sneaking back in."

I'm glad for you Dee. Vindication is sweet. But ultimately, we all really have to lean very heavily upon Jesus Christ being the justifier and the vindicator of us all.