No feisty license
How did Paul say to bring the truth? It is easy to see falsehood, and falsehood can fire the feisty. Do you want to clean up other people’s errors? Be careful about your reasons. Humans love to be right or be perceived that way. Make sure that your goals align with God’s and are not rising out of your personally flawed soul.
He said, “Bring it with love.” Do you wish to point out that an unwed pregnancy is outside of God’s will to emphasize you are in God’s will? Or, are you saddened by the rejoiced in, unwed pregnancy as a result of seeing its misfit to God’s intentions and the downstream effects in rattly families? Are you mad at them or disappointed? Spend time with God and learn what his plans are for any comment you are spurred on to make. God is truth, but he is truth in love. We must not speak truth from feisty vantage points.
When evil motives are strong, love must be stronger.
What good is truth in love?
It fosters good growth. The injection of Godly viewpoints through Godly means builds up. It builds up you personally; it builds up the church; it purifies the church by separating ill-choice from God’s community.
Right approaches cause us to mature in Christ. He is the head of the church, and his ways are the only ones which will be accepted. So-and-so may seem like such a nice person, but Jesus said, “I am the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me.” He does not say, “…no one comes to the Father except through me or if you are nice.” There is a rock-hardedness to truth; at some point, it will support you or break you.
Look at the following passage:
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ (Matthew 7:21-23–ESV)
Truth is crucial, is to be spoken and spoken in love. When spoken, lived, and engaged maturity comes. It will support you in your uncertainty and will steadily navigate you through significant problems. You will grow up into Christ’s intention for you, and that is the blessing that keeps on blessing.
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