Covering

One of the biggest ways I see a change in my heart and day is when I refrain from talking about an offense someone inflicted. 

I think it’s our nature to want other people to be on our side when we have been wronged so we let other people know about it.  

But God calls us to a higher leveled response than succumbing to our nature. We have a new nature in Christ, but we have to choose to act in it for it to become more and more our natural response. A queen always acts in love and love is trusting, not fearful. Because a queen trusts God, she is able to cover an offense by not talking about it. (Proverbs 17:9.)  

A gossip stirs up division and separates close friends. Sometimes this might be your goal, but it only hurts and stops you from being in union with God.