How Is Your Gossip Meter?

Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. Colossians 4:6

Is there such a thing as innocent gossip? Of course the answer is NO. Some gossips are addicted to it and others I feel really think what they are saying is not bad or harmful but talking bad about anyone is never good especially if you call yourself a believer.

Have you found yourself there stuck in the middle of a situation where someone starts to speak poorly of another? I have many times. Sometimes it can even be in a Christian setting! Remember those people whose moms said to them “if you can’t say anything good then don’t say anything at all?” Well my friend that is what all of us need to strive for.

Gossip is a sin of the fleshly nature and not sure why we feel compelled to share things that won’t build a person up. Gossips spreads half truths, lies, hurt, causes irreparable damage and truly if we are a believer shouldn’t we be praying for who we are talking poorly of instead of harming them with putting them down in a round about way to others. Instead of talking down about someone’s past faults or things going on in their life why not stop and say a prayer for them and pray you can love them enough to not talk about them behind their backs.

PRAYER: It is so easy to get caught up into talking about why so and so do this or does that but frankly it is not my place. Lord Jesus convict my heart if I am ever tempted to speak poorly of another to stop then and there and sing your praises and lift them up in prayer instead. In Jesus’ name. Amen.