A Gossiper is a Murderer

Here's a little story that pretty good. I got this in an email as a foward. For once i actually read a forward and am very happy i did.

One day Jason White was driving through a small neighborhood when he happened on a toddler walking in the middle of the street. No one was around the child, so Jason panicked, thinking another car would run him over. He quickly stopped the car, turned on his emergency flashers, and ran for the child.
As he picked up the little boy, he began speaking softly to him. "It's okay, don't cry; don't cry." As Jason looked at the child, he recognized the boy as the son of a young couple he went to church with. He looked around and found a small home where the child likely came from.
Placing the toddler in his car, he pulled into the short driveway. Linda Johnson came to the door with a curious look on her face.
"Well, hello Jason, how did you know we lived here?" she asked.
"I didn't," he said, "but I found your son, and wanted to bring him home."
"Tyler?" she said, looking puzzled. "No, he's taking a nap in the living room."
"Well, as I was driving through the area I found him walking in the middle of the street. I stopped the car and carried him to safety; and I was hoping this is where you lived."
"Are you sure it's Tyler?" she asked, stepping out onto the porch. "Where is he?"
"He's in the car."
Linda walked toward the automobile and began sobbing when she saw her son sitting in the passenger seat.
"Oh my goodness," she said, picking the child up and pulling him close, “he could have been killed!”
"It's okay, he's fine." Jason said. "My only concern was to get him safely home."

Too many times we as Christians see someone in danger of sin, and speed right past, offering no help, just to get to the nearest telephone. "You'll never guess who I saw going into the downtown bar!"
What if Jason would have ignored the little boy and drove past him? Maybe he would have picked up his cell phone and called a fellow church member. "John, you'll never guess where I just saw the Johnson kid just now: playing in the middle of the street! No, I'm not kidding; why I had to swerve off the road to keep from hitting him, myself!"

When we gossip about someone, we leave them for dead. That, my friend, is a sin. A Christ-like heart would stop and make every attempt to get the person safely home. And I realize not everyone wants to be rescued or helped, yet that still gives none of us the right to gossip.

As Frank Clark once said, "Gossip needn't be false to be evil--there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around."

And for those of us who listen to gossip, we are just as bad and just as evil. When we give an ear to Gossip, we are just as much a gossiper as the person revealing it.
So from no on, when someone tells us, "This is not gossip, it's merely a prayer request," let them know how disappointed we are in knowing they did nothing to help the person they are gossiping about.
Remember, gossip can be a contributing factor to spiritual death. Not because of what the gossiper does; but because of what the gossiper does not do.




My life in a nutshell: thinking a little bit more about what I'm saying now!