Don Henley: "Dirty Laundry"

What a shame we hear so little good news. The motto, "If it bleeds, it leads," is continually followed by reporters and news editors. These days, political enemies of the leftist activists in the press are the ones routinely smeared.

Don Henley had a hit with a song about television newscasters back in 1982. The media landscape has changed but the ethos is the same. "Kick 'em when they're up. Kick 'em when their down."

Listen to this song here:

One sin Christians fall into is gossip. Unlike seeking a way to help a fallen sibling in Christ, folks use their tongues to tear others down while boosting their egos.

Gossips ought to heed Proverbs 10:18 (Bible in Basic English). "Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish."

God certainly took harsh action against those who murmured against Moses. That generation wandered the desert for forty years. Numbers 14:36 and 37 (BBE) explains, "And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were the cause of the outcry the people made against Moses, Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord." Only Kalib and Joshua were spared for their good report of the land."

We also receive a stern warning against harmful speech in James 3:5 and 6 (BBE) about how dangerous wicked talk is. "Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. "How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire! And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell."

James 1:19 and 20 BBE) also reminds us, "You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry; For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man."

In the event that Christ hasn't returned by Monday, I plan on posting about When to obey or disobey government edicts.