Honest Love

Have you ever been lied about or been the victim of the rumour-mill, where jealous or hate-filled people have spread malicious and salacious gossip about you that just isn't true? The Bible says that a good reputation is more valuable than great wealth, that it is better to be well thought of than it is to be on the Forbes Billionaires list with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. That is why it is so emotionally devastating to have people spreading falsehoods about you. And yet, in jealousy or hatred, every single one of us has done this to someone else, often without batting an eye. What would it look like to be people who speak to and about others in a Ten Commandments kind of way, who never "bear false witness"?