Truth

A truthful witness saves lives but a false witness is deceitful. Proverbs 14:25

What do I say about others? Do I say something offensive because I am offended? Or do I admit my own sin and set the one who caused the offense free?

How easy it is to stop at how a person makes us feel and speak about them from that place rather than the whole truth of the matter.

When I am offended, at times, it is my false ideas about how I should be treated that is the issue not that actual person who offends.

How I colour my words is important. We give greater importance to ourselves and therefore colour the other person in a darker light when they may not deserve it.

As I write I am thinking of something I said last night to a friend. I did not want to stay at home with a particular person because I was unsure of them and did not want to be alone with them. To explain what I meant I drew a word picture which, of course, made my friend agree with me. Isn't this what we do all the time?

The man in question is a boarder in another girlfriends house, where I am currently staying while in Wodonga. My friend went out and I was alone with this man and I did not want to be, yet that was not his problem, it was mine.
Therefore he does not deserve to be coloured in any way to excuse my decision to visit another friend.

Sounds complicated but perhaps the complication is mine.

Basically the love of Christ calls me to be honest and not blame others by conversation, rather look for ways to bless. amen!