Psalms 50:20. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
When a tongue has once learned the habit of calumny, it will spare none. The nearest relative and the dearest will become victims to the habit -first of gossip and afterwards of actual detraction and lying. Oh! the misery, the pain, that is caused in the world by this habit which is so rife! And can we imagine ourselves to be the people of God when we delight in repeating false stories about others? Have we forgotten the truth of that word, "All liars shall have their portion in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone"? As surely as God is true and loves truth, if we love lies, where God is we can never come. It matters not how much we may pretend to have reverence for God, and to have an experience of his truth; we are not of the truth, neither are we of God.
Psalms 50:20. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
When a tongue has once learned the habit of calumny, it will spare none. The nearest relative and the dearest will become victims to the habit -first of gossip and afterwards of actual detraction and lying. Oh! the misery, the pain, that is caused in the world by this habit which is so rife! And can we imagine ourselves to be the people of God when we delight in repeating false stories about others? Have we forgotten the truth of that word, "All liars shall have their portion in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone"? As surely as God is true and loves truth, if we love lies, where God is we can never come. It matters not how much we may pretend to have reverence for God, and to have an experience of his truth; we are not of the truth, neither are we of God.