Can we just tell the truth? Why do we feel the need to hide instead? People hide behind justifications (for Christians, these are often couched in Christian-ese), or we may even hide by not communicating. If I say nothing, then I can avoid confrontation, conflict, or simply keep things simply the way I like it without interference from others (otherwise known as control).
Is a relationship hurt by failing to tell the truth?
Sometimes Christians hide from telling the truth (or being true) in a cloak of spiritual endeavors, verbage, piety. Yet, The Sermon on the Mount is filled with practical applications for true relationships, and none of it is spiritually-coated avoidance. How often would we rather 'pursue God' rather than deal with our relationships. We can pray for people, but do those people know you care? Have they experienced true relationship with you?
As Believers, we should be different - not because we use spiritual words or do spiritual activities, but because we are changed. I guess we all have a long way to go.
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We lie out of fear: fear of being found out to be the person we believe our selves to be, fear of rejection, fear that they won't love us.
ReplyDeleteYes, fear motivates alot of people alot of the time. Good news is, "Perfect love casts out fear". That's what we find in God. That's what gives me hope that we can overcome such fear to live freely, more and more as we grow in relationship to God.
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