***This blog was published on June 1, 2011. I wanted to include it as part of my "Archived Series Blogs***
"A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates the best of friends"
Proverbs 16:28
"He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends"
Proverbs 17:9
Gossip is like a cancer. It tends to spread more and more until it has completely destroyed a person or a friendship. God does not want us as believers to be gossipers. It is so easy to find something out about someone and then get on the telephone and spread it to just one person. Then that person will spread it to someone else. And so on and on until it has destroyed a friendship, a marriage, or a close relationship. We think it's wrong to go out and commit fornication, do drugs, smoke cigerettes, curse, kill innocent babies in the wound, but we don't think twice sometimes when it comes to spreading gossip. We burn up the phone lines talking about each other when we get some juicy gossip. We tell ourselves, "Well it's no harm and nobody knows I'm just being a little overly concerned and telling my bestfriend", but that bestfriend then tells her neighbor, she tells her husband, he tells his wife, she tells it to the girl at the beauty salon, and it goes on and on until it reaches the person who's being talked about. And that in turns has the tendancy to destroy close relationships.
God does not want His people to be gossips. Take these matters to Him in prayer. Do not repeat a fault when you see or hear something on someone. Do you not think that God will not judge you for this? Tell it to the One who can fix the matter. Let us not be talebarers. Let us stop backbiting. Show the real love of Jesus Christ and pray for that person. They have feelings just like you. And ask yourself, "How will I feel if I knew someone was gossiping about everything I may do or say?" Then ask yourself, "Would Jesus do this?"
