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Love Without Truth



The Most Hated


We have finally arrived at our final post of the month. It is with this post that I will be addressing what I believe to be the most hated aspect of biblical love, which is of course, the truth. If you joined us earlier this week, you know that we talked about what the biggest dangers of love are in our current day and age and I also hinted at how we will be saving the biggest aspect of love that people deny for our final post. I don’t think many of you who may be reading this would disagree with me that when we look at our society today, we don’t prioritize the truth as we should. People’s feelings, comfort, and other beliefs come way before the truth in almost every aspect of their lives. Jaden Craymer from the Medium had this to say on our current culture in regards to the truth. “Whether it’s because they’re too fragile, too sensitive, or too ignorant, the truth can often leave us feeling vulnerable, exposed, and sometimes even betrayed. For a lot of us, the truth rocks our world, rips apart the reality we’ve created for ourselves, and forces us to see things in a new light.” Needless to say, I totally agree with him. 

The truth in this day and age is no longer a priority or even the final say in most cases, because we have gotten to a place where comfort is held higher than reality. With this in mind, see how much of 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 you can actually apply with this mindset. “4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. 5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, 6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” Is any of this passage still applicable with this comfortability mindset? Probably not. And that’s the problem. Not only are people today trying to take the truth out of love, but Christians are actually seeming to be ok with this. Whether someone tells you they were born in the wrong body, or that certain sins are ok to commit, or even that they believe in a different religion than you do, we have become so accustomed to how our society views truth, that we don’t even stand up for it anymore. This is absolutely detrimental to the Christian walk for a plethora of reasons. 


A False Love


For starters, you can’t say you love someone in a biblical manner without truth. That statement is contradictory. Once you take truth out of love, you are no longer loving others how Christ wants you to love them. We are fooling ourselves if we think that someone can live a lie, and we should just simply encourage them to keep on living this lie cause that’s what Jesus would want us to do. Quite possibly  the best example of this is the story of the adulterous woman in John 8. This woman is caught in the act of adultery and is brought before Jesus to see if would agree that she should die. And what does Jesus say? John 8:10-11 tells us, “10 And straightening up, Jesus said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?” 11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you, either. Go. From now on do not sin any longer.” I love this passage because it is so clear on how Christ called us to love others. Does Jesus simply forgive this woman and say ‘go on and live your life as you did before’? Of course not! That would defeat the point of forgiveness! He tells her to go on and sin no more. If we think for a second that ignoring our friends' sin in their lives and encouraging them to keep on doing what they're doing is a ‘loving act’, we couldn’t be more wrong. If we truly love our friends and those who are lost all around us, we would just be kind and patient with them like Jesus was, but we’d also tell them the truth like He did too. Jesus didn’t just forget that this woman was adulterous, He knew she was, and told her it had to stop. We may know friends who are living in sin and thinking it’s ok, but if we truly claim to love them as Christ did, we will tell them the truth about their sin, despite what culture may tell us we should do. 


What’s The Reason?


This attack on truth in our current society has led many believers to surrender the truth in hopes that just being accepting and kind will lead people to Christ. The issue here is that while being kind and accepting will attract many, it solely won’t attract them to Christ. They must at some point, come to know the truth. We were warned about these people in 2 Timothy 4:3-4 “3 For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth and will turn aside to myths.” A time is coming, and dare I say, is already here, where people will care less about what is true and more about what makes them feel good. Shame on us if we think the Christ-like thing to do in this scenario would be to ignore this sin and let these people blindly walk into Hell. Now, by no means am I saying that we need to shout the truth at people with picket signs and megaphones, but we do need to tell them the truth. Yes, we should be kind, patient, and approachable to the lost. All of these are good and Chrsit honoring. But we can’t forget the truth in the midst of all this. Otherwise, our witnessing and evangelism will all be for nothing. I encourage all of you today to pray that God would help you be more courageous today to stand up for the truth and love how He has called you to love this world. It may feel uncomfortable, but I promise you, the reward of a lost sinner knowing the road to truth in Christ is worth more than you will ever know. 

 






Sources

[1] “Access Your Bible from Anywhere.” BibleGateway.Com: A Searchable Online Bible in over 150 Versions and 50 Languages., www.biblegateway.com/. Accessed 2023.


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