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Slander

by PamFord Davis  
6/20/2023 / Devotionals

Do you gossip?

Many might remember playing the childhood game of gossip.

I’m not sure when I first played the game. Was it in 1^st grade? 2^nd?  I do remember that my elementary school teacher taught the class how to gossip. First, she had us sit in chairs that were arranged in a large circle.

We eagerly listened as she explained how to play the game. All we had to do was listen to a secret. The person sitting to one side of us whispered in our ears. Then, we whispered it to the child sitting on the other side of us.

The teacher started our game by whispering a secret to the first child in the circle. It didn’t take long for the gossip to reach the very last child. The teacher then asked the first and last child to tell the secret to the whole class. The secret whispered by the teacher had changed. It was not the same by the time it reached the end of the circle.

We giggled as we heard how much it had changed (as it was passed around).

Gossip isn’t really a harmless game.

“The words of a gossiper are like dainty morsels,
And they go down into the innermost parts of the body (Proverbs 18:8 NASB).”

Gossip is a serious sin.

… “people having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice; they are gossips, slanderers… (Romans 1:29-30a NASB).” 

We don’t want people to gossip about us.

Why do we slander the reputations of others?

Published articles in Mature Living Magazine, Devotions for the Deaf, The Secret Place, Coosa Journal, Mary Hollingsworth's The One Year Devotional of Joy and Laughter, Jo Krueger's Every Day in God's Word. http://www.pamforddavis.com
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