To Be a Blessing: Backstabber

You'll never know when a friend can betray you.

Didn't know people can be so gossip minded that they can be a friend to you and the next minute she or he will be the person stabbing you from behind. Especially girls, we're prone to have a gossip mind and we can lose our friendship or anyone around us if we continue. It pleases you at first but then, it becomes a habit and it becomes something bad. Like a parasite, it eats up your mind and promises pleasure, but BE CAREFUL because what these things portray isn't forever, and when you realize it, it might be too late. If there's a hole, do not let or allow the hole to be bigger.

James 3:9

"With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness"

James 3:8-12

But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.

What we speak with our mouths shows where our heart is. We are either in submission to the Holy Spirit of God, or we are in bondage to our own fleshly emotions and desires. We absolutely have to learn to bring our tongue into submission.

It's not enough to just refrain from speaking evil of someone, however. As a matter of fact, we are instructed in Romans 12:14 that not only should we not curse our enemies, we should BLESS them instead! That's right! We are to bless them: Speak good of them, to them, and about them, and wish good upon them.