okay so i don't really know what i am going to blog about tonight, so i'm thinking that this might be a random one.
okay, so i have noticed that i have not been being patient with other people. like they don't know that i'm not being patient with them but i know that i am not being patient in with them inside me. that is something that i have struggled with my entire life. i will say one thing to them and then say something completely different about them in my head. to me this is a really big sin issue of mine. oh, and also i like to tell others when a person bothers me, and that right there is gossip. i listened to a radio show this morning on Titus 2:3. it was talking about slander and how the greek word for slander is diabolos and how that would is used for satan. we are doing the devil's work when we slander. (slander: gossip, idle words, lying, talking behind someones back, boasting cursing, evil speaking). i think we can all say, or a least all of us girls can say, that we have slandered about someone. this has been very convicting. we are to put slander out of our lives. Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. you can't just stop speaking gossip, you have to get it out of your heart, so that there is no way for it to come in. i know that i have said this before, but i will say it again. you can not do this on your own!! you need the Lord's help to overcome it! don't listen to slander or gossip about others. that will just make you want to speak it more. i believe that even listening to slander/gossip is a sin (that is my opinion). make sure you stop the slander/gossip that you hear. it is not glorifying the Lord at all when you slander/gossip. who are you being like when you slander/gossip? are you being like Jesus? or are you being like satan?
Nice "random" post. It is not just girls, it is all of us. This often stems from pride, that we are better than the person we are talking about, because we couldn't possibility do something like that ourselves. Right!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the encouragement. We are to spur each other on to love and good deeds. Love for others would be included under the "love" heading and putting slander and gossip far away from us would certainly fall under "good deeds".
Thanks, Liv. Mr. Weinberg is right: people may stereotype girls as more slanderous and gossipy, but guys have more trouble with it than we say. Pride (in my mind) is what leads to almost every other sin. Keep up the posting!
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