Slander

ONCE A WORD is spoken it can never be retrieved...

And once a reputation is ruined by slander, it can never be restored. I remember years ago when Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan was indicted by a grand jury and ultimately exonerated after a lengthy court battle. As he left the courtroom, a reporter asked him what he was going to do. Donovan replied, "Which office do I go to get my reputation back?"

The story is told of a young man during the Middle Ages who confessed to a monk, "I've sinned by telling slanderous statements about someone. What should I do now?" The monk replied, "Put a feather on every doorstep in town." The young man did just that. He then came back to the monk wondering if there was anything else that he should do. The monk instructed, "Go back and pick up all those feathers." The young man replied excitedly, "That's impossible! By now the wind will have blown them all over town!" Said the monk, "So has your slanderous word become impossible to retrieve." (Robert Jeffress)

KneEmail: "A perverse man spreads strife, and a slanderer separates intimate friends" (Prov. 16:28).

Posted by Mike Benson at April 19, 2006 1:35 PM

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