While bad neighbors maliciously gossip about me, I’m absorbed in pondering your wise counsel. Psalms 119:23 (MSG)
Gossip is a negative bad report. It’s malicious, injurious and destructive in effect. Gossip is not only what others talk about us behind our backs but also the negative bad thoughts that run in the back of our minds and the negative bad things we say and believe about ourselves. But there’s a good report and it is the wise counsel of God.Isaiah asks ” who has believed our report?” Isaiah 53:1. He connects this report with the revealing of the Lord’s arm which means what God has done. The good report of the Lord, the wise counsel of God is what He has already done in Christ Jesus for you. This is what God knows and believes and speaks about you.Are you going to believe the enemy’s gossip of lies, accusations, condemnation, which brings bondage and oppression or are you going to believe God’s Gospel of truth, approval acceptance that brings liberty and wholeness?The enemy’s gossip and report is that you’re stuck, sick, unworthy, unable, defeated. The Lord’s Gospel and report is that you’re advancing, whole, accepted, and an overcomer.The report you believe is the report you live.