About Gossip...

"The consequences of gossip:

~Gossip separates friends.

~Gossip causes strife.

~Gossip causes discord in the body of Christ....

~Gossip is just as bad as any other sin.

Never should one of God’s 

beautiful, gracious, godly women 

be a part of separating friends, 

causing strife, and causing division in the church."

I saw this on Jim and Elizabeth George's face book status,

and I AMEN this a thousand times over.

It is a cruel, cruel thing to be the target of gossip,

and I humbly admit that God had to cause me to 

experience it's deeply wounding talons

in order to more fully understand

and come to hate gossip.

It is very true that gossip separates very friends.

It is very true that gossip cuts like a knife down

deep in the soul, and gives satan 

opportunity to cause one to stumble,

or to struggle with focusing on herself

or to lose confidence in who God called her

to be because of gossip and slander.

:

Friends, I beg of you,

think carefully before you talk about others.

Don't feel like you have to share everything 

you know about situations to everyone who

will listen. There are few who need to hear

most of what you may want to share about 

others and situations you might be party to.

Someday, those who wrong you may repent

and I plead with you to be careful how

you share now about them because if they

repent, you will have done them a kindness to

have had love cover a multitude of sins.

(not talking about sharing with whom you 

should be sharing here, I acknowledge that

there are things to be shared sometimes in

appropriate ways and places).

Besides the havoc that comes from gossip,
it is an abomination to the Lord.
Check it out in His Word:

Leviticus 19:16
Prov. 11:3
Prov. 18:8
Prov. 20:19
Prov. 26:20, 22
Titus 2:6-8
Col. 4:6
1 John 3:15
(I cannot see how gossip is loving,
so therefore, it fits in the hatred category,
does it not?)

Whoever has ears
 to hear,
let them hear...

I am thankful for
this painful lesson
I have had to learn.

And I pray that God will always
show me how to navigate through
situations that might require my
sharing
about others.

PS

Photo credit for

the above 

picture with the

cookies and milk,

and the yummy 

peppermint 

chocolate crinkle cookies

we enjoyed after the 

photo shoot 

was done,

are blessings

 from the hand

 of my 

youngest daughter,

Miss Brenna.