Gossip part II

 The other thing about gossip.... 

…and other related things like judging, malice, slandering, tearing someone down, hating someone, treating them poorly, stigmatizing someone, treating them like their worthless, etc... 

...is that the people who do these things to other people are, whether they are aware of it or not, basically trying to define who that person is without knowing them. They have not see the whole history of their life, inner nor outer.

And the person being negatively effected by these negative things has to wrestle with two views of themselves, one a possibly conflicting view from an outside person who does not fully know them, and two the view of themselves from themselves or from their family or friends or God, etc.

And what is spectacularly fabulous about God... yes … you guessed it... is the He already knows who we are, what we've done, and every thought we've had a long the way!  The good, bad and the ugly.  He does not deny the bad we have done.  Nor does He want the bad.  

But he realizes everything we've been through, everything the "world the flesh and the devil" has thrown at us growing up in this fallen world, including the lies, wounds and temptations, know we are all just trying to survive and be successful and not be rejected... 

He understands it all... and thus waits until we are ready to receive the full understanding of his divine nature and good intentions for us, to love us, heal us and bless us and disciple us into the original plan of his images being "Disciples and Followers of God" as Irenaeus put it.