Ptygrneyez copied this line to her page from a book she read. It is a concise statement of what I’ve discovered to be true.
What a man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for himself.
This works for the good as well as for the bad.
As it concerns the bad, I have discovered that I need to keep my mind, mouth and energy off the problems and lives of others. The extent of my involvement will be limited to a prayer that God bless and that his will be done.
I don’t know if anyone else has this problem, but I had become a silent viewer then spreader of, what I considered to be someone’s mess. It wasn’t that I was concerned, I was operating in a, “HA HA, the know it all gets wacked” way. I was surprised as to how foolish and desperate the person must be, but I was also gloating. I gloated just a tad because it seemed the doom they had forecasted/ perhaps desired for me had manifested in their own life. Hence evidence that “What a man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for himself.”
I’ve accepted that people don’t need to get my opinion prior to living their life. I have no reason to think on it, speak on it or offer an opinion on it.
I think when I allow my thoughts to become entangled in other folks issues, a bit of their ailment infiltrates my life. I could kill myself (not physical death) through being nosy. It doesn’t matter the justifications I can create, I realized I need to mind my stuff.
I decided to seek God’s advice on my actions because I was being tapped lightly on the wrist. I think God was kindly gaining my attention and telling me to stop while things were pretty for me. I try to heed His word. I googled interfering in other people lives and found- It is an excellent, but rare union, to be active in our own business, yet quiet as to other people’s. Thessolonian had a word for me.
I do not want to be affected by negative energy and if I’m all up in the business of others or judging them negatively, then I’m bringing negative stuff upon me. I am taking it and bringing it with me, they aren’t sending it.
The original sin and the subsequent fall out sprang from a desire to know and disobedience. So I don’t think I’m crazy to think my nosy ways were causing a seperation between God and his plan for me. Psalms 66:18, Prov. 21:23, Prov. 6:12-15 all discuss that gossipers can’t get answers to prayers and have persistent unexplainable problems. Proverbs 6 discusses what the Lord hates and is an abomination to him, an uncontrolled mouth was on that list. So my idea that allowing my energy and nosey mind to get into other’s people’s business infects me, was validated.
Peter compared a busybody who is in other men’s matters to a muderer, evildoer or a thief. I certainly don’t want my mouth to be the source of my downfall.
I’m pleased that the Lord dealt with me and let it be clear to me that I need to repent and control my mouth and negative curiousity.
When the folks I love have situations similiar to what I was talking bad about other folks for having, I don’t spread the word, I pray and hold hope for them. From now on if I think the actions of others are crazy I will keep my mouth off and pray God’s blessing be on them.
But it is tough not to talk and is tough not to be curious. But I must remind myself that I’m doing this not only to honor God and the blessings he has for me, but to stop myself from causing the things I say of others to become the things said about me.
