By Anna Von Reitz
We have often guided Assemblies and individuals away from gossip and preached the evils of it. We have pointed out the scriptural warnings against it, and against all other practices of lying, too. Some of the very last words recorded in the Book of Revelations makes it clear what the destiny of "all Liars" is.
They go with Satan to his end. They do not inherit the Earth. They do not have the joy of peace and fellowship.
What more can we do to keep people safe from the evil inheritance they are laying up for themselves, every time they speak evil and spread lies?
You may not have thought of gossiping as a form of lying, but in fact, it is. You are conjecturing and speculating about things you don't know and most of the time, you are doing this about people and situations you don't even know in the factual world.
How many people gossiping about me in the present time actually know me or what I do day to day at all? How many know me well enough to have a grounded knowledge of my character and what I actually do as a Justice or as a Fiduciary?
None of these people actually know me. They don't know my job. They just stand around and flap their lips and make things up.
When you gossip, you are creating something out of your own imagination --- and making it a group art project does not render this "art" anything more or different. It is still art. Still fiction.
Just as they create corporations out of thin air and use these things to stand for you, when you gossip, you create a version of reality that is made of thin air -- assumptions, suppositions, fears, projections of your own motives and character, a whole panoply of illusions. And then you get other people to cluster around and add their illusions.
It's still an illusion.
This process needs to be examined and recognized for what it is and how it works, and having seen that, grown up people need to turn their backs on it and take responsibility for the quality of their own thinking.
I have often repeated the basic operating principles of the Evil Ones, or those who make themselves evil by what they do, and chief among those is that they always accuse others of what they are doing themselves.
This process of "projection" is common as dirt and until you recognize it for what it is, you will be like a little child prattling away and scared of the dark --- and doing the same things these monsters do.
You are all grown up people, and you are responsible for what you say and do. You get to choose how you conduct yourself and how you discipline --- or fail to discipline --- your own mind. You are also responsible for the damage you do and the "drama" you create in the lives of others.
Strangely, I am not doing this because I am myself the subject of nearly worldwide gossip, both good and bad; I am doing it because this unconscious practice of "creative lying" is harming others.
It's harming you, if you gossip, because every dishonorable act undermines the one doing it, it undermines your peace and credibility and limits the respect you might otherwise have in your community -- and ironically, that is what most gossipers crave.
It's harming any naïve, uncritical people who happen to hear your gossip and who are suddenly afraid of your phantoms.
That's why I have always told you, don't gossip and don't allow people to gossip around you and in your assemblies. When it rears its ugly head, just tell the gossipers that's not how we do things.
The glorious Truth will always be borne out and the guilty will always be discovered, but a righteous person has only the staunch defense of God, who actually knows the truth about them.
I long ago contented myself with His judgment which is why I don't care about anyone else's judgment. In a way, if you have to gossip about someone or something, I am a safe target. Because I don't care. I don't stay up at night crying in my pillow because someone is out spreading rumors and abject lies about me. That's on them.
Not me.
Think about it. The Gossiper, like the less creative Liar, is revealing far more about themselves -- their fears, their pettiness, their motives -- than they can ever reveal about anyone else. And they are accruing the karma of their words with every syllable they utter.
I observe this to you, as I observe everything else, so that you stop and think about the fictional world you have spread out before you. Know that it is fiction. Know what you are participating in when you gossip. Think about it, and you will know what to do and how to protect yourself from it, and perhaps more importantly, you will learn to rely on Divine Judgment.
Always remember the stories of Joseph, cast into a prison by the lies of a lustful woman, and Joshua, whose report on the opposing forces inhabiting the Promised Land earned him mistrust and gossip from his friends and neighbors --- and in the end, eternal glory.
The judgments of men, even the best of them, are faulty. Divine Judgment is perfect. To whatever ends the True God leads me, my fate is in his hands. I will not worry, no, not a nanosecond, about my life or my destiny, or what his plan may be for me.
If he leads me to Pharaoh's prison or standing in front of an Amorite giant, I will go.
If you can't depend on anything else in this world, depend on that.
Know that I am where he placed me and that his hand is capable of delivering me and that his word protects me, always, no matter how dire the circumstance. Take up that same protection for yourselves.
Sleep peacefully, knowing that you have done your best and told the truth, and that you rest in the palm of his hand, like a diamond he has shaped for his own purposes.
Granna
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