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Re: Love Everybody
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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
I like what Tim Gill tweeted the other day:
"Telling the truth in anger doesn't diminish truth, just the credibility of the speaker."
There are couple of quandaries that come up when people don't show love to one another--even when speaking *hard* truths. First, those who are trying to appear loving feel pressured to not speak up at all in certain situations lest they be associated with those who aren't speaking the truth in love. Secondly, when you speak the same truth in love that another spoke in anger, you run the risk (again) of guilt by association.
My Dad drilled this into me: If you say you love God, but you don't love your brother, you're a liar. (I John)
If I have to err, I would prefer to err on the side of grace and love than on the side of causing offense or provoking someone to anger.
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I agree with you and your Dad. I do struggle sometimes to say things carefully, because if I say what I really feel, it is not always kind or nice. Even if I am right, it doesn't mean I need to say it.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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