THE TALE BEARER AND THE FALSE TESTIFIER

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There are some people who want to make new friendship or sustain an existing one but the other person just isn’t interested. The friend-seeker may even go to extra length to cook up stories to attract the attention of their target friend.

Another group of people have the habit of wanting to be the first to give a breaking news about some event and without taking time to find out the authenticity of the news item, they quickly go about spreading the information they just received.

Eventually, they get to discover that the information was false and they react either by remorse or shrugging off the information and moving on to the next great news to spread.

For some others, it may be their rival or enemy is in some kind of trouble and it is confirmed to be true. The tale bearer having known relishes the thought of telling about the enemy’s troubles to anyone who cares to listen and quickly rushes to do just that. In fact, it gives him so much joy and a sense of “victory” to speak about the enemy in such manner.

In extreme cases, he may even give false testimonies to ensure the enemy is punished.

There is another group of people who would readily sell out others through false testimonies just to gain favour.  Some may see someone in danger and rather than come out to speak the truth to save the person, they maintain silence and are not bothered about the consequences to the person.

It may also be that the person and someone else is in danger but the person would only speak to save himself and tell lies to endanger the other person.

Dear friend, whatever group you belong to above, I want you to know today that the Lord Jesus Christ is watching every one of us and we will give an account of our actions here on earth.

Let us see what the Holy Bible says about these behaviours in Leviticus 19:16, “You shall not go up and down as a dispenser of gossip and scandal among your people, nor shall you [secure yourself by false testimony or by silence and] endanger the life of your neighbour. I am the Lord.”

You must remember that nothing is hidden from God – Hebrews 4:13. Do not therefore give false testimonies to damage anyone’s reputation no matter how upset you are with that person.

A Christian is called to forgive and not to destroy another person for revenge sake.

If you are in a position to give genuine information, not false information, that would save a person’s life, then by all means come out and give it.

Do not give false information because you want to help someone in danger because that is a sin. You should rather pray to God to forgive the person, show mercy and rescue him.

Finally, do not make yourself a tale bearer because you want to gain someone else’s attention, friendship or favour. The best Friend anyone can have is the Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God.

He cannot defraud you, he cannot destroy your reputation, he cannot hate you, he cannot hurt you. Instead, He is your Creator (John 1:1-3; Colossians 1:16) and He loves you with perfect, genuine love of a Father to His child.

Whatever you need, whatever issues you have, whatever trouble you are in, just discuss with Him in prayer and be sure that He, the Lord Jesus Christ, would respond to comfort you and provide an answer.

If you do not yet have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, today and now is a perfect time to do so, for tomorrow may be too late.

May the good Lord bless you as you heed His Word today, act on it and share with others in Jesus’ Mighty Name, Amen.

Gabriel Ama.
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