Daily Devotions
Speaking the Truth In Love
Reading for December 10th: Ephesians 4-6
speaking the truth in love...
Ephesians 4:15
Sodium is an extremely active element found naturally only in combined form; it always links itself to another element.
Chlorine, on the other hand, is the poisonous gas that gives bleach its offensive odor.
When sodium and chlorine are combined, the result is sodium chloride, common table salt, a substance to preserve meat and bring out its flavor.
Love and truth can be like sodium and chlorine. Love without truth is flighty, sometimes blind, willing to combine with various doctrines. On the other hand, truth by itself can be offensive Spoken without love, it can turn people away from the gospel.
When faith and love are combined in an individual or a church, then we have what Jesus called "the salt of the earth" (Matthew 5:13) and we're able to preserve and bring out the beauty of our faith (Ephesians 4:15)..
Father, help us to be salt always speaking the truth but doing it in love.
(I got this article from an online bulletin from my friend Bob Myhan. He listed the author as unknown.)
