Gossip.....A Plague That Destroy Relationship......

Gossip.....A plague that will destroy relationship. It just like a fire burns the whole village. Gossip had been a bad things in life. Why people love to gossip? Aren't they will bored of gossip people that is innocent. Even it is real, speak frankly to the person that should know. Why people need to spread gossip that can hurt people. Haven't they think that when other person gossip at them, how will they fell. It's very hurtful. Even it can make people not trusted to the person who gossip around and the people around him/her. It's makes relationship broken. If the member of a team or an organization will split up into different group and will not united together. Gossip is like a plague that had affected people in my hometown. A single gossip can make people not trust you again. If a gossip spread around in a church, the church will not united as one body. We will fall apart and unable to united together to serving God. That why I sick of gossip and lies. I decided to speak frankly and honestly. I had known the consequences of spreading gossip. It was cruel thing that had hurt much people. As christian, we must not gossip. We must encourage our friends and leader all the time instead of spreading cruel and hurtful gossip.
In James 3: 2 - 6 in the Bible (New Living Translation):

"We all make many mistakes, but those who control their tongues can also themselves in every other way. We can make a large horse turn around and go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth. And a tiny rubber makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot wants it to go, even though the winds are strong. So also, the tongue is a small thing, but what enormous damage it can do. A tiny spark can get a great forest on fire. And the tongue is a flame of fire. It is full of wickness that can ruin your whole life. It can turn the entire course of your life into a blazing flame of destruction, for it is set on fire by hell itself."

That is why gossip is a bad things in our life. It hurt people heart. Just like backstab a person.

What Happens When We Lie?
• We damage relationships with others

• We poison our own soul
Psalms 58: 3 – 4 “Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward and speak lies. Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears.”

• We will face God’s judgment
Revelations 21: 8 “…all liars - their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

: A one of the weekly sermon at Church of Holy Saviour, Labuan http://www.cohs.info/sermons.htm

We should speak frankly to people because gossip hurt people's heart. If a heart had been hurt, it's hard to heal. The truth will set you free.