There is something wrong when we rejoice when others fail. Of course, we do not want to fail ourselves and we would be most offended if we knew others rejoiced when we fail.
Why is it that we love to hear news of how some Christian celebrity has failed in some form of iniquity? Is it because we believe ourselves to be better than them? Is it because their failure gives us a reason to gossip?
Why do we love to gossip about other people’s failures even if they are not celebrities? We love to say that we would never do anything like that.
Why is it that after we have gossiped about those who have failed that we seek to cover ourselves by offering up a word of prayer for them? We should have been praying for them at the beginning and then we may have delivered ourselves from a gossiping, slanderous spirit.
We set ourselves up for failure when we gossip about other people’s failures.
To be continued.
Be encouraged. Colin Campbell