The
rate of backbiting in the house of God is getting really bad and it makes me
sad not just because of the backbiter or “backbitten”
but because of the listener whose walk with God is threatened just because they
listened. Sadly, this time nothing and no one is sacred. I suspect that if
Jesus was still on earth these gossips, liars and destroyers of personalities
would have attempted to ruin Him. I guess such people have always existed because
they attempted to do the same to Jesus when He walked the face of the earth. My
goodness! These people just lie. They rewrite the truth even in their minds,
making it more interesting by coating it with lies just so that they don’t lose
their audience. They are so desperate to hold onto their audience that even
when they run out of stories to rewrite, they make up stories about things that
never happened forgetting that if/when God reveals them, they would lose
respect because of the number of lies they have told. The amount of lies and
character assassinations going on in church today is certainly another pointer
to the fact that “false brethren have indeed crept in unawares”. Interestingly,
these liars actually think that the fact that they have reasons for telling those
lies about others is enough reason but is this acceptable to God and can anyone
sincerely love another and yet lie so much about them? What manner of love is
that? Is this the most excellent way that the bible talks about? Even the
unbelievers will be amazed at the level of hate, envy and dishonesty that exist
amongst “brothers and sisters in Christ.’ The truth is, much as we may hate to
admit this, we don’t love one another. We actually hate each other.
I John 3: 15 “Anyone who hates another brother or sister
is really a murderer at heart. And you know that murderers don’t have eternal
life within them.”
1 John 4: 16b “God is love, and all who live in love live
in God, and God lives in them
Our
understanding of love is definitely warped. It is impossible to tell a lie
about a person you love and especially not destructive lies. It is strange to
claim to be born again and yet have the capacity to hate anyone and if you didn’t
know it, backstabbing, envy, lying and all the other ugly things hint at hatred.
Sadly, the one thing which we ought to hate is some of the most attractive
things to us. Though we are believers, we love sin and admire sinners for their
sin; so what then are we doing pretending to be children of God? Some of us
admire unbelievers so much that we make them our mentors or long for them to
be. I wonder how one can look up to another who is travelling a path they
turned their backs on because they were certain it ends in death and does not
please God. How does one claim to behold God and yet behold one whose life is
totally contrary at the same time? The word of God says it is impossible. No
one can serve two masters; we will either choose to continue to be enslaved to
God who purchased us with the blood of Jesus or return to the life of
enslavement to the devil which is not God’s plan for us. No excuse in the world
makes it okay for a believer to destroy another believer. You don’t know it but
you are a murderer; the bible says so. Every time you tell those terribly
destructive lies, God is against you because you are attempting to murder His
own. Be careful.
Proverbs 25: 18 “Telling lies about others is as harmful
as hitting them with an ax, wounding them with a sword, or shooting them with a
sharp arrow.”
I John 2: 9 – 11 “if anyone claims, “I am living in the
light,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is still living in darkness.
Anyone who loves a fellow believer is living in the light and does not cause
others to stumble. But anyone who hates a fellow believer is still living and
walking in darkness. Such a person does not know the way to go, having been blinded
by the darkness.”
Unfortunately
we hardly make progress in life when we are like that. Believers in this state,
hate to even look inwards much less admit that they are liars and murderers.
Such believers remain in darkness and so do not have clear direction even for their
own lives. Hatred is blinding and facilitates bad decisions so that you are
ruining your own life by making room for satan to ruin your life but you don’t
see it. It is for the same reason that Cain was made a fugitive for life. Many
of us hate our fellow believers so much that like Cain killed Abel, we are murdering
them and God is calling out for us to do right that He may bless us. God hates
this attitude so much that He responded to the cry of Abel’s blood. The pain of
the cry of some believers has come up to God who is known to respond to such
cries. We have to repent of this behavior and turn around before the judgment
of God is poured out even against such “murderers.” Unfortunately, we don’t
grasp the meaning of the love that God is. The world’s definition of love has
totally warped our understanding of the God kind of love. It is time to stop!
1
John 3: 11 – 12NLT “This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We
should love one another. We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one
and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because Cain had been doing
what was evil, and his brother had been doing what was righteous.”
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