SUNDAY March 7, 2021
The Truth Hurts
What then was the blessing you enjoyed? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me. Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
Galatians 4:15-16
Paul loved the Galatians tremendously. At one time, their love was reciprocated. The Galatians, knowing Paul’s personal struggle with his infirmity––his weak eyes––if possible, would have given him their own eyes! They loved him that much!
When Paul, in love, began to detail everything the Galatians were doing wrong––following the Judaizers and going back into the Law––he once again shared the truth of God’s grace with them. In response, the Galatians became angry with Paul. They turned against him and treated him as if he was an enemy. Yet he was just sharing the truth of the Gospel with them.
When a person is no longer walking with God as they should, if a brother in Christ approaches them, even though they address the things they have seen in their lives, in love, they often react in anger. They can get so mad, even though a brother in Christ is not judging them. The brother or sister in Christ sincerely loves them, and that is why they are sharing with them the truth.
However, the truth always convicts, and the truth can hurt. How do you react when a brother or sister in Christ presents you with the truth?
To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures.
~Erwin W. Lutzer~
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