Gossip can be a \u2018choice morsel\u2019 that\u2019s hard to resist. So what\u2019s the solution? Catch yourself before you indulge in it! Ask yourself why you\u2019ve decided to be a bearer of bad news. Is this the only way you know to establish camaraderie with others? Do you enjoy being the centre of attention? Does it make you feel superior to know something negative about somebody that the listener doesn\u2019t know? Are you envious of the subject\u2019s accomplishments? Why are you willing to use the temple of God as a \u2018rubbish bin\u2019 by receiving gossip? (See 1\u00a0Corinthians\u00a06:19). What do you plan to do with what a gossip told you? Are you bored and need more significant activities? <\/p>\n
People who know their God-given purpose in life and are committed to it find they don\u2019t have time for gossip. So if you\u2019re serious about eliminating it from your life, wage an all-out war against it. Let everyone know you won\u2019t be the bearer or hearer of \u2018choice morsels\u2019 anymore. Declare your environment at work, at home, at church, or at play to be a \u2018gossip-free zone\u2019, and make every effort to avoid gossipmongers. <\/p>\n
Solomon writes, \u2018A gossip goes around telling secrets, so don\u2019t hang around with chatterers.\u2019<\/i> (Proverbs\u00a020:19\u00a0NLT<\/sup>) When your tongue is used as an instrument of righteousness, your stock in Heaven rises. You\u2019ll be able to humbly declare with complete dependence on the Father, \u2018Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a019:14\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>) <\/p>\n Bottom line: don\u2019t be a gossip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gossip can be a \u2018choice morsel\u2019 that\u2019s hard to resist. So what\u2019s the solution? Catch yourself before you indulge in it! Ask yourself why you\u2019ve decided to be a bearer of bad news. Is this the only way you know to establish camaraderie with others? Do you enjoy being the centre of attention? Does it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}