Better is open rebuke
than hidden love.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
-Proverbs 27:5-6
barlow_girl and I were rebuked yesterday, absolutely rightly. The amount of courage it must have taken our friend to pull us aside and call us out is stunning, the kind that may only (and in this case, almost certainly did
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I have recently learned from a situation where I can look "in the right" for my actions that being thankful for rebuke...even when it's coming hard and fast...is right.
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So in addition to everything I wrote about in this entry, there's the simple, functional question of what rights do I believe "being right" gives me. Apparently, I've taken that as a license to all sorts of sin against others, both out loud and in my heart. But the truth is, being right affords me no rights whatsoever. Only who I am in Jesus gives me any rights or responsibilities-my being right has never been worth much, and I'm a fool to think otherwise, especially to the detriment of others and disobedience to God's law of love.
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As I was reading your response, I thought of a verse I have heard recently. "Love covers a multitude of sins." Indeed. Reminds me how I am nothing.
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