Recently, I have realized that every thing you hear is not the "whole' truth. I have found that many people will work hard to stir up your emotions by giving you enough truth to upset you but hiding enough facts to deceive you. At times, this was described as a little white lie. Now it seems to be an accepted fact of life with some people and they feel OK in doing it.
Where many fabricate and add to stories, there are others who leave out partial facts and as a result give you partial truths, that may sway your opinion in an unfair fashion. When going to court you promise to "tell the 'whole' truth, nothing but the truth, so help you God. Life should be that way.
Somehow some Christians feel it an obligation to spread rumors but they don't term it that. They actually tell partial truths therefore letting you surmise what is meant. They often know that if they tell the complete truth you would respond in a different fashion. Therefore, they deceive you by telling you a partial truth and set you up for emotional devastation.
This happened to me when I served as a leader in a secular job. A lady very adept in this art, would give me partial truths about an individual, and would give the other individual partial information about me. This led to disagreements and hurts developed.
Simply stated, we were set up! The lady was a deceiver. She was a gossip. She was simply sewing discord. And all under the disguise of 'only telling the truth'. She knew exactly what she was doing.
So why do this anyway. Was she trying to make something appear a certain way to get an expected outcome? I think so.
How can we deal with this?
We can be truthful. If we feel that what we are saying to another might upset the person and know it may cause problems, then be quiet. If the information may save a person's life, etc., it may be a different story.
Maybe, before we speak it, pray about it. A unique way of thinking. But it just might work!
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