Love is love, they say. But God says real love requires truth, and truth requires love. Without truth and love together, we’re left with a counterfeit that destroys them both. Our confused culture is selling it every day. Don’t buy it. Truth and love were made for one another. And what God has joined together, let no man separate.
Subscribe now so you never miss a single one of these devotionals. Contrary to a current trendy view, love and truth are not enemies. They don’t stand in opposition to one another. Uh they really are not fighting their best of friends. It’s actually impossible to love somebody if you don’t tell them the truth.
You keep them living in their dream world. And it’s impossible for you to courageously tell someone the truth if you don’t truly care about them and love them. Think about Jesus. He was the most loving man that ever lived. He was also the greatest trutht teller that ever lived. He loved people so much that he went to a cross and publicly was humiliated and died a cruel death to pay for the crimes that he didn’t even commit.
And he was so forthright that he spoke the truth even when it cost him his life. And perhaps the most profound thing about Jesus Christ was not just that his love didn’t contradict the truth or that the truth he spoke didn’t contradict his love. It was that it was the love within his heart that compelled him to always speak the truth.
Let’s not ever be so gullible as to let other people tell us what love is. Love is not love. Love is what God says it is. Let the Bible define what it truly means to love. And we have that in uh high definition, great resolution, full color in the life of Jesus. True biblical love always speaks the truth. It speaks it compassionately.
It speaks it at the right time, in the right way, so that it will help the person that you’re speaking to. Real love will never require you to bend the truth, trim the truth, leave out half the truth. And speaking the truth will always require you to be motivated by love so that that truth actually helps somebody.
