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Are you a gossip?? Do you constantly talk about other
people's lives? These are two questions I never asked myself. Why??
Because I was convinced that I wasn't a gossiper. I made extra
effort not to say anything to anyone about anybody that I knew wasn't anywhere
close to me and the other person I was talking to. It made me irritated
to think that someone could be talking about me behind my back. "How
would I feel about that?" I thought. So I made extra effort!
If someone was to talk about someone else, I changed the subject!
Yeah! I thought to myself, "They should know better than to be
so easy off at the lip talking about so and so! What's their
problem?!" Well, I learned something that knocked me off my socks today!!
What is it?? Here it is:
MENTAL AND INWARD GOSSIP. YES! Gossiping to another
person isn't the problem, it's what goes on in our minds that's the problem,
whether we share it with others or not. Gossip, by
the Webster dictionary is this: a
person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others.
Another way to say that is: Nosy people, or
people who self-imposed-ly get involved in other people's business.
Well, I would bet a One hundred dollar new sneaks
that when people think of Gossip they think of someone who tells someone else
about someone else's business who is not in the room at the time. Well,
they are right, but what we don't realize that our main house is not the wooded
or plastered square diameter wall we are in when we are with other people, but
rather it is far more actual to think of the house that is YOU. What you
think when you are thinking to yourself. I discovered that I was spending
a lot of time thinking about stuff that was never any of my business.
Sometimes, even stuff about our own future isn't
really any of our business, but if we're not careful, we can gossip inwardly to
ourselves and waist a lot of time, instead of giving it to God. Honestly,
I wasn't feeling like I was one of those people who tell
others about other people's business until recently. I thought "it's being
nosy, it's being too curious about other people's lives, what they wear, their
house, they're style, anything not related to them.." I
thought I was exempt because I didn't talk to others about other people's
business, but God showed me that I was wrong. I wasn't talking to other
people about others, true, but I discovered that in INWARDLY I WAS ENTERTAINING
SO MANY GOSSIPING IDEAS ABOUT OTHERS TO MYSELF. You see, we don't need
another party to share juicy little tidbits about others. Secretly for
years, I would walk down the street and I purposefully looked around
constantly, not in a lustful way alone but sometimes just putting my nose into
other people's business saying to myself in my mind, "Oh, I wonder what
that person is up to, maybe something interesting," or "Oh,
look at that person, what is that person thinking.." or "Oh,
look at that person.." on and on and on. The problem with this person
watching was that it takes you off of the direction you are headed perhaps
literally and spiritually as well. It's honestly a calling to if at all
possible, mind our own business.
The Bible says, we aught to be professionals at
sticking our nose OUT of other people's business. If you look into the
Bible, unless God specifically directed, mighty leaders of God did not go
around self-imposingly looking for people to get involved with, in fact, it was
usually quite the opposite! , These never acted like they needed to find people
to change. NO. God always changes us, and then he sends those whom
he wants so that HE can do something in their lives. Well, some people might
say, "But, J, don't you need to take the initiative to help others?"
Yes! The initiative is to believe in the ONE whom God is sent.
Nothing more and nothing less. God will do the rest! Being God lead
and self obligating are two different things and can easily lead us into inward
mental gossiping (overly sticking our noses into other people's business)
"But, Jeremy" one might say, "Aren't we supposed to
keep our brother accountable?" Yes, but which is easier to do, or
which is more God motivated, to say "I need to look and make sure that
everyone around me is doing what they need to be doing" TROUBLE! or to
say, "LORD, I'm going to fix my eyes on Jesus (You) and I'm going to trust
that those whom You have placed in my circle of influence you have
placed in my life will be touched and moved through the personal and intimate
relationship we have, and I know I will be a blessing to them as you give
me all i need to be sensitive to their needs with wisdom and gentleness know
how to care for them and the courage to know when it is my responsibility to
act."
You see, taking it too much on ourselves to be involved in other
people's lives gets us into trouble because it can be easily self-started i.e.
self-motivated. Those we influence, when we entrust it to God, we can
live securely knowing that God is guiding our steps and leading us to be
powerfully and positively involved in other people's lives. And until
then, we have the complete permission from God to just mind our own business.
Each of us should make profession out of leading a more gentle life (1
Thessalonians 4:10-12)
When I discovered this for the first time. I realized that I
actually did have enough business of my own that I didn't need to find other
business or more business unnecessarily from other people. I
think apart of the reason why i was doing this was because of the ungodly way I
was thinking about my own life. I was thinking, "Well, I don't have
much in my life, so I might was well think of others and what they have, even
if i don't tell others" or i thought "maybe if i involve myself in
this person's life, and since this person's life is more interesting, 'cause
this person probably is more worth thinking about." Nonsense!
Delivery from the lies of the enemy. God so loved us that He
sacrificed the ultimate price for us so that we could be with him
forever. Repeating: So that He could be with us FOREVER! He
loves us. If that doesn't tell you how valuable your time is with Him,
let me tell you, God created you and every second with you gives him goose
bumps, why?? Because He loves you SO. I wish I had the time to just
explain those two letters put together: SO.
God Almighty SO LOVES YOU. and He wants
us to move in a forward direction with Him. The Gossipers problem is not
really the problem. The real problem with gossipers is that mentally
they are going round and round in a direction that is taking them in a constant
spiral. This is a specific design of the enemy. The enemy's plan is
to get us to be distracted off of our healthy relationships with others and our
relationship with ourselves and especially (most importantly) our relationship
with a Loving God longs for us; if he can get us spirally mentally about 12
hours of the day; that's his idea, but we have the eyes to see: as long as we are thinking about other people
and what they are doing, we are not moving forward in our own lives and the
destiny and purpose that God has so intended for each of us for that day and
for us with the people that God has placed everyday in our lives to move ahead
forward with them, not just physically, but also in relationship and
in communication in connection and in community amongst so many other great
things! Make a decision to move forward today!
When I was baptized I realized that the Holy Spirit lives inside
of me. Then every time I entertained a thought about someone whether
good or bad that wasn't any of my business, it was just like i was talking to
the Holy Spirit who was trying to have fellowship with me because the spirit is
interested in a personal relationship with us, but so often we say,
" Please wait, Holy Spirit, let me cut you off from revealing
your marvelousness for a moment, we need to talk about what in the
world is this person thinks they are doing." Now don't get me wrong,
we all think about someone else and we can't always just be thinking about ourselves
constantly, that's not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is, as we go
through the day, we should let the Spirit, that still voice inside, diagnose
what is our business and what is not, until think just relax and soak in all
the marvelous things that Your heavenly Father wants to reveal to you
personally about Who He is! This alone tells us that honestly we have
enough good stuff of our own, so many things to thank God for and think of that
the importance to plunge into other people's business turns to be as similar
desire to jump out of a deep ocean blue tropical sea into a 1 inch shallow
lake.
When I was baptized I recognized another thing that it was
time for me to move forward from in my relationship with my Awesome Creator
God. I was probably the worst gossiper when it came to putting my nose
into other people's business. But it wasn't others that was really the
problem for me, but it was me. Not to others, but to myself. This
is something that we often can overlook, but is so important to see and stop:
we can sometimes gossip badly about ourselves to ourselves. Listen, there
is never a good time to talk badly about yourself to anyone
and especially to yourself. Here is a challenge today for you:
Listen to what you say or think about yourself for a moment. It is
CRUCIAL AND OF THE MOST IMPORTANCE TO DO THIS SOME MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE:
One day stop and vow to yourself apologize and move on. This is
what I realized, because of Jesus, my shortcoming are no longer any of my business.
Amen. I want you to think about this, Jesus, God doesn't think
about your short comings anymore so why should you put it upon yourself over
God to say, or think about them either. Who told you you have to do that.
God himself says No. Let me tell you, we are all human, we know we
are, God knows that we are, We all have had shortcomings, but because of His
One and Only Son, He NEVER sees that in us. So no longer take charge of
the things that God has moved forward from, let the dead bury their dead, and
you, move forward and follow Jesus, and no longer entertain ungodly thoughts
that are wrapped up in the falsehood of your upbringing, in the newness of your
upbringing with your Heavenly Father, You are grounded if you think about
yourself as anything but precious, God's, Jesus' one and only treasure!
Beautiful and The smile of God.
Your life is so incredible to God. Dear Father, I pray that
all those who read this message may come to a new place in their relationship
with you Today. Show your glory and majesty in a great and wonderful
light through this message. Have a great day :)
Out of ALL things He made, Jesus is only excited about being with
You always (John 3:16).
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