Why Do We Gossip?

WHY DO WE GOSSIP?

Earlier today I was in prayer and I asked the Lord, "why do people gossip?" you know our God is faithful? He answers us, and He answered me.

This is His answer to me:

James 3:6-And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

James 3:8-But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

James 3:9-With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse man, who have been made in the similitude of God.

Jeremiah 17:9-"The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?

In the next Scripture tells us who knows our hearts.

Jeremiah 17:10-I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways according to the fruit of his doings.

I would love to stop right here because I'm pretty well convicted, but I can't.
The Lord has showed me that gossipers has the spirit of division,
Proverbs 16:28-A perverse man sows strife and a whisperer separates the best of friends.

God is extremely good and He will help us with our tongue if we want Him to.
The Lord revealed something to me when I was writing this, in James 3:9 the word similitude is used, that word means likeness, so when we gossip about our sisters or brothers we doing that to Jesus.
I believe another reason why people gossip is, they do it from wounded a heart.

There is a couple of ways that you know someone is gossiping about you:

1- Prayer: The Bible tells us that He will show us mysteries. And I believe He tells us if someone is gossiping about us.

2-Body language: Your body never lies.

Self-Control !

SELF-CONTROL!

Galatians 5:22-25
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ's have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

For two Sundays in a row my Pastor has said, "If the computer is your problem, take a baseball bat to it," well I can't use self-control with Face Book so I have deactivated it. I want to finish my testimony from birth to now and I can't do it if I'm always on Face Book. I remember when I could read a book a month, the book that I'm reading now I should have been done with it a long time ago. I have peace about this, I'm also pretty excited about it. I'm excited to see what God will do in my life.

Lord, I pray that You will help me in this. Show me how to use self-control not just with Face Book but in every area of my life. In Jesus' Name, Amen!