Calling Walking in Truth and Love

Calling

Walking in Truth and Love

Dramamine is most effective

if taken 30 minutes before you get sick.

Speaking the truth in love is most

effective when given early!

I love fishing and the water.

Boating is a real joy to me, until

the waves start rocking my boat.

I soon start to lose my balance

and then everything I have eaten

is barfed overboard.

That’s how it is when we don’t

 have a good understanding

of God’s Word.

We hear something that sounds good,

from a friend or the media,

that seems contrary to what

 we have heard from God.

Or…

We face something in life that

doesn’t seem to line up with

our understanding of God.

And…

Before we know it we are sea sick.

We can’t make up our mind.

 

And…

If we aren’t careful,

we will barf up the Word

of God we have eaten.

If you are in this place,

you need the “truth in love.”

It takes both truth and love to get you feeling better.

One without the other will not get you through.

In that time of confusion, we need

the truth from someone who loves us.

Someone we know cares about our

 life and what happens to us.

Unfortunately, there are those who think

it is their job to force feed you truth.

And there are those who love us

so much they won’t say a thing,

thinking it might upset us.

I have learned how to handle rough waters over

the years but I still find times I get sea sick.

It doesn’t seem to matter

how experienced we may become,

we all need the truth with love.

When I go out on the water,

I know if it is a 1 or 2 ‘Dramamine Day’.

 When we work together, and grow up into Christ,

we need to keep the bottle of “truth and love” handy

for the times of doubt, fear, and temptation.

Speaking the truth in love will

help us get our sea legs so we

can walk worthy of our calling.

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 4:11-16 NIV

11 It was he who gave

some to be apostles,

some to be prophets,

some to be evangelists,

and some to be pastors

and teachers,

12 to prepare God's people for works of service,

so that the body of Christ may be built up

13 until we all reach unity in the faith

and in the knowledge of the Son of God

and become mature,

attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

14 Then we will no longer be infants,

tossed back and forth by the waves,

and blown here and there by every wind of teaching

and by the cunning and craftiness of men

in their deceitful scheming.

15 Instead, speaking the truth in love,

we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.

16 From him the whole body,

joined and held together by every supporting ligament,

grows and builds itself up in love,

as each part does its work.

John 8:31-32 NIV

 "If you hold to my teaching,

you are really my disciples.

32 Then you will know the truth,

and the truth will set you free."