Did you play "gossip"
as a child? Someone starts the game by whispering a short
statement to the first child. Next, that
child whispers to the next child what he thought he heard. Then that child whispers to the next child and
that one to the next one and so on until the last child speaks aloud what
he/she heard or thought they heard. It
is then matched against the original whispered message.
Many adults who should know
better have ruined numerous lives by gossip. God's Word prohibits gossip. "Thou shalt not go up and down as a
talebearer among thy people." (Leviticus 19:16) James gives much
instruction concerning the tongue calling it, "an unruly evil, full of
deadly poison," and saying, "Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing
and cursing. My brethren, these things
ought not so to be." (James 3:8, 10)
Gathering up gossip that has
been scattered abroad would be like trying to gather up feathers that have been
scattered in a wind storm. It was Jesus who
said, "But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they
shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt
be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." (Matthew 12:36-37)
Gossip is not a harmless
child's game. Gossip is generated, not from a heart of Christian love and
compassion, but from a heart of venomous hatred. If you are guilty it is a sin that needs to
be confessed and let the blood of Jesus cleanse you of it.
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