Let’s get one thing straight: narcissism isn’t just annoying; it’s not just toxic; it’s spiritual warfare dressed in good lighting. When someone rejects truth, humility, and love, they’re not just being difficult; they are rebelling against divine order. God designed love to be sacrificial; narcissists twist it into a performance. He created humility to build unity; they use charm to create confusion. And truth? They bend it, break it, and bury it—whatever it takes to keep their ego inflated. It’s rebellion, not disorder.
So yes, there are consequences. And it’s not always thunder and fire from the sky; sometimes the judgment is subtle, invisible, internal. It’s peace that evaporates, favor that fades. Relationships that look fine on the outside but feel like quicksand underneath. You see, sin always has a receipt, and narcissism has been racking up the bill for years. The tab doesn’t show up right away, but it always comes due. When it does, the performance stops, the lights dim, and the mask they built their whole life around starts to crack.
For the crumbling illusion, they don’t fall all at once. It starts small: that text that doesn’t get answered, that friend who suddenly gets busy, that new partner who starts asking real questions instead of just clapping on cue. You don’t always notice when favor leaves a person; it doesn’t scream—it whispers through silence, through distance, down through doors that used to open wide, now barely cracking. The narcissist feels it, but they can’t name it. So what do they do? They double down: more lies, more charm, more control. They scramble to hold the illusion together like a con artist duct-taping a house of cards.
But when God withdraws His hand, when He steps back from what He never approved, nothing stays shiny. What once looked like momentum turns into chaos. The smiles don’t stick, the charisma falls flat, and suddenly people don’t laugh at the same jokes anymore. Why? Because the anointing is gone. Manipulation doesn’t work in the presence of truth. They don’t know it yet, but the world they built is buckling. They’re throwing glitter on a sinking ship, and the scariest part? They’re still smiling, thinking they’re winning. But the ground’s already cracking beneath them, and the fall has already started.
Five Divine Withdrawals
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