Recently, I feel like it was the Lord that took the time to explain to me speaking the truth in love. When addressing sin we have to remember we are dealing with someone who has turned to forbidden actions to cope with pain. When rebuking sin, you are necessarily poking at pain (and even trauma). Many of us have developed maladaptive coping mechanisms to address a pain that we feel otherwise unable to process through. The woman who abuses food and embraces gluttony is likely doing that because she is in pain. The man who abuses alcohol and embraces drunkenness is doing that because he is in pain. The one who practices sexual lewdness and embraces sexual immorality is doing that because they are in pain. When confronting sin, we are necessarily confronting pain. And while the pain in others does not change what God's Word has said, the awareness of their pain informs *the way* we share what God has said. Hence, speaking the truth in love. We hold fast to the Word of God and share it with the most gentle touch we can muster... because we are poking at wounds. Open wounds that we know are not yet healed because, well, they (we) are still sinning.
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. Ephesians 4:15
I thank God that he has spoken His laws to me in love and has been faithful to pull up every ugly root of sin planted in me. Let's be faithful to admonish one another in love and bring yet more of our Father's sheep into the fold through the truth and love.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Colossians 3:16
Bindi Marc
Recently, I feel like it was the Lord that took the time to explain to me speaking the truth in love. When addressing sin we have to remember we are dealing with someone who has turned to forbidden actions to cope with pain. When rebuking sin, you are necessarily poking at pain (and even trauma). Many of us have developed maladaptive coping mechanisms to address a pain that we feel otherwise unable to process through. The woman who abuses food and embraces gluttony is likely doing that because she is in pain. The man who abuses alcohol and embraces drunkenness is doing that because he is in pain. The one who practices sexual lewdness and embraces sexual immorality is doing that because they are in pain. When confronting sin, we are necessarily confronting pain. And while the pain in others does not change what God's Word has said, the awareness of their pain informs *the way* we share what God has said. Hence, speaking the truth in love. We hold fast to the Word of God and share it with the most gentle touch we can muster... because we are poking at wounds. Open wounds that we know are not yet healed because, well, they (we) are still sinning.
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
Ephesians 4:15
I thank God that he has spoken His laws to me in love and has been faithful to pull up every ugly root of sin planted in me. Let's be faithful to admonish one another in love and bring yet more of our Father's sheep into the fold through the truth and love.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Colossians 3:16
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