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    Whoever slanders his neighbour secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure |Psalm 101:5|

    When I started my job we went through a whole thing about confidentiality and not sharing or talking about peoples’ private information; even inside of work, we have to only talk to the person with whom that discussion is relevant. And that discussion kept coming up over and over. 
    And today it has made me thinking about gossip; the gossip I’ve listened to, shared; never seeking facts because I’m not invested in the story to that degree, but still engaging in the salacious juicy details. Funny enough, I separate myself from what I perceive to be the egregious gossip from the small, palatable titillating kind that is harmless and not necessarily worth getting up and arms about. 
    But gossip separates people. It drives a wedge between friends, family, colleagues, and it plants seeds of strife. It has certainly influenced my perception of the person/people being talked about, and it’s difficult to value someone when I think I know who they are based on the negative things I have heard, even if within that negativity there are facts.

    A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret. (Prov 11:13). It’s funny how we can be both these people: a person who can keeps someone’s confidence, and also one who betrays it. Even if we do not go about spreading false reports, why are we helping a guilty person by being a malicious witness? Why are you sharing negative information about someone with others when they have no need to know it and will most certainly not be part of the solution?

    Whether you think it’s a big deal or not, don’t be the foolish person who uses their mouth to destroy your neighbour. Yeah, you may not know the person, nor even care for them, but keep yourself from having a hand in destroying them. Don’t even listen to it; why choose to be a witness to someone’s evil?  Gossip erodes your integrity, hence its insidious nature. 

    Be a person who can keep the confidence of your loved ones, friends, acquaintances. 

    If someone can be fired for sharing private information, and companies lose the public's confidence for doing the same, imagine the blessings you are blocking because your mouth is doing too much, and you are not guarding yourself against such folks.

    Be a person who maligns no one [but be] peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all people. |Titus 3:2|



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    Are you familiar with the story in the twelfth chapter of Luke, where Jesus is telling his disciples to beware of the Pharisees and their hypocrisy? Within that chapter He further explains that there’s nothing covered that shall not be revealed, neither hid that shall not be made known. And as I read this verse over and over, thinking to myself, what an ominous message for wicked church leaders; the words instead glared like flood lights on my own heart. The pharisees had an outward righteousness and inward corruption. They appeared holy and would critique people for their lack of devotion, but behind closed doors they behaved just as bad, if not worse. They were ritualistic and pretentious.  And that’s Christianity for you: raising a mirror to your own heart and seeing your own hypocrisy staring you in the face. And here I am arrested by both disbelief and panic. In what way have I been hypocritical? How often have I judged someone for doing something that I am doing/have done. How many times have I paraded around righteously while doing wickedly behind closed doors? In what manner have I behaved myself a pharisee?

    There is nothing hidden that shall not be made known. Can you imagine all your shortcomings laid bare for judgement? But God is merciful. I can’t count the times my hypocrisy slapped me in the face and there was none the wiser. But God made it known to me; I was made conscious of it, so that I could show mercy, change, and be humble. So that I could busy myself with taking the log out of my own eye rather than arrogantly pointing out the log in another’s eye.  How we are so quick to see the ungodliness of another while swimming carefreely in our own! 

    All in all, I should not to be arrogant; but rather check my heart, my motives.  Ask the Spirit to search my heart so that I may speak and judge righteously, with wisdom, not emotionally. In this I can bring my case to God, clean and without my own sin condemning me. At the end of the day, leader or follower, some folks are not interested in seeing where they are wrong, and acknowledging their methods were all wrong. So their own sin remains. 

    Of all the ways that you could miss heaven, do not let it be because your own pride and arrogance and self-righteousness led you astray. 

    Repent of your sins and carry your own cross.


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