I stole this title from one of today's gotandem posts ( read post at https://gotandem.com/posts/1622) . The person was writing about how subtly we gossip about people under the guise of "giving information about someone." This reminds me a lot of when some prayer teams meet to pray; they call their gossipping "giving a prayer request about someone."
can do to someone's reputation, yea, even their very lives.
I remember reading a story about a woman who spread gossip about someone, which caused the person to become sick. When the gossiper heard about how her gossip had affected the person, she went to ask forgiveness from the victim. The victim forgive her, but asked her to take a pillow, rip its contents out and scatter it in the wind. She did so. The victim told her to collect all the pillow's contents. But of course this was impossible. The victim then likened the contents of the pillow to the gossip that the woman had spread. Once it has been spread abroad, the words could never be totally recalled again.
So, men and women, boys and girls, remember this! Once a slanderous word has been spread abroad about someone, all of it can never be recalled again. And be sure that God is not at all pleased when you spread gossip.
can do to someone's reputation, yea, even their very lives.
I remember reading a story about a woman who spread gossip about someone, which caused the person to become sick. When the gossiper heard about how her gossip had affected the person, she went to ask forgiveness from the victim. The victim forgive her, but asked her to take a pillow, rip its contents out and scatter it in the wind. She did so. The victim told her to collect all the pillow's contents. But of course this was impossible. The victim then likened the contents of the pillow to the gossip that the woman had spread. Once it has been spread abroad, the words could never be totally recalled again.
So, men and women, boys and girls, remember this! Once a slanderous word has been spread abroad about someone, all of it can never be recalled again. And be sure that God is not at all pleased when you spread gossip.
"These six things doth the Lord hate; yea, seven are an abomination unto him....a lalse witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren." Proverbs 6:19 (KJV)
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