Proverbs 26:28
(28) A lying tongue hates those who are crushed by it,
And a flattering mouth works ruin.
(NKV)

One could assume that the intent of this verse could be paraphrased, "Only a person who hates another would deliberately wound or hurt someone by lies." However, this verse really suggests, upon closer reading, that the very act of saying something negative about another will automatically reinforce this belief.

In explaining this principle of reinforcement, psychologist George Weinberg states, "Every time you act, you add strength to the motivating idea behind what you've done." Weinberg describes graphically how hatred and resentment can be built from scratch:

At a party Ralph makes an offhand remark critical of a certain movie. When he first makes his remark, his attitude toward the movie is actually mild. He may even have liked it on the whole, and his remarks merely to display his cleverness. But he gets a surprise. Instead of just smiling at the gibe, someone at the party contradicts it. Ralph answers back. The other man rebuts again. Ralph attacks another aspect of the movie. The man is unmoved. Ralph tears into the other man's notorious bad taste. Ralph's basic attitude toward the movie has changed. Now he really hates it. At the next party he goes to, almost the first subject he brings up will be the movie, to attack it thoroughly.

As the hatred grows, Ralph's personality and character become sullen and ugly. His own tongue contaminates his very being.

James 3:6 reveals, "[The tongue is a] world of wickedness set among our members, contaminating and depraving the whole body" (The Amplified Bible). Verse 8 continues, "It is a restless (undisciplined, irreconcilable) evil, full of deadly poison."


— David F. Maas

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This past week, I have witnessed what a negative word said about someone began to magnify by the next person who built upon the first supposition, then a third person, until my head spun from the "ugliness of it all".

I've had it done to me personally; how a false accusation or an embellishing a sentence a little here or a little there brought about even more accusations until I hurt so much I wanted to run and hide behind a wall so no one could wound me anymore. IT HURTS even with the wall up because the ache is inside of yourself. Soon time begins to diminish the hurt and you come out from behind that wall. God didn't design us to live behind a wall and He certainly didn't raise up an ecclesia that embellishes/lies. The day will come that all of this will come before Him.

What is so ironic is that a fellow Believer can fling the crud faster and harder than an unbeliever....you don't duck because you just don't expect it.


I've seen it done against this ministry. Because some did not like having to face the fact that their belief system was brought about by the very Jesuits that have infiltrated all the churches....they attacked the messenger.

You would think that someone that was really wanting to do the right thing would, instead, have searched out a matter before beginning a character assassination. And if the matter had really been researched, the accusations would have turned into gratitude.....gratitude for the truth being shared.

Is it any wonder that James wrote so much about the Lying Tongue?

Be slow to repeat what you have heard. More times than not, it has gathered a lot of junk so that the original fact is nowhere to be found.

Gerlinda

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