Truth and Love

Truth without love is brutality and it often is not helpful because it is hard to receive.
But love without truth often doesn’t help either,
because it will not tell you what you sometimes need to hear.

It seems that most of us tend toward one or the other of these types of extremes. Some people are very loving, their words are always positive, affirming and encouraging, but often not as forthcoming and truthful as they should be.

Other people seem to have no problem speaking truth but they do it in unloving and unkind ways. It’s like they don’t really care if you receive the truth, they just care on getting it right.

Because we are God’s children, we cannot be satisfied to be EITHER loving or truthful. We must seek to grow more and more like Him so that we come to be BOTH loving and truthful.