Gossiper's Need to Zip It!

Gossiper's have hit us all and many of us might not want to admit it, but we have done our share of gossip! It's kind of difficult to get away from all the gossip when we've been programed to do it. Every time you turn on the TV you can find a show that's blasting someone! Current Affair, Talk Soup, TMZ, Joan Rivers, The View, Jerry Springer, you know you watch some Jerry Springer. It makes you feel better about yourself when you see that there's people out there with worse problems than you. It's like people are looking for something to gossip and talk about, when King David was fleeing for his life and everyone was talking junk. He hid in a mountain and wrote this


I find myself in a pride of lions who are wild for a taste of human flesh; their teeth are lances and arrows, their tongue as sharp as daggers. Psalms 57:4


In the New Testament, James says Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body.  It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire. James 3:5-6


Both of these writers look at the tongue as some sort of weapon of destruction! Our conversations should be to lift one another up not pin point all their faults! 

Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs. Ephesians 4:29

Somebody needs to say building up according to their needs!!! Building up according to their needs!! I had to repeat that to make sure you got it! Not according to what you think they need, but according to what they actually need.

Also as stated before if you have already hurt someone or someone else thinks you've hurt them, you are to fix it.

Therefore if you are offering your gift at the alter and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the alter. First go and be reconciled to your brother, then come and offer your gift."  Matthew 5:23-25

Notice it's not just if you have a problem, if you know someone has a problem with you!

So let's just Zip It and start peaking encouraging words to each other!