Have you realized how much your words matter? Have you realized that you can hurt someone with your words? Have you realized that you can encourage someone with your words?
When we gossip we are not ENCOURAGING we are HURTING someone...even if you are not saying it directly to their face, the person we are telling it to may tell that EXACT person. I know, it is hard not to gossip. Proverbs 21: 23 pretty much sums it up:
Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
That verse goes for gossip, criticism, and any form of where your mouth is getting you in trouble. Do you like it when people gossip about you? I am sure you don't. Imagine how the person that YOU are gossiping about makes THEM feel. Luke 6:31 makes a VERY good point:
Treat others the same way you want them to treat you.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, the Bible tells us. May we be a people who only speak life to people and about situations! Great job, Alyssa!
ReplyDeleteGreat post Alyssa! So true!
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