Speaking the Truth in Love

A criticism i have heard for decades, is,

"You catch more flies with honey than vinegar!"

This implies that uncomfortable truths should be soft pedaled, to make them more appealing.

But this argument is flawed on many levels.

1. Truth can be told, with love, but mealy mouthed arguments that do not convey the actual truth, but a lie, are at their root, lies.

2. Lies cannot be told in love. Half truths and false impressions that mask the truth are driven by hatred and disdain, even from a smiling face.

3. Truth is often hard. It shocks our comfort zones, and corrects delusions.

4. If you try to be a friend to the world, by promoting its lies, you make yourself an enemy of Truth, and God, Himself. 

5. Always..  ALWAYS.. fix on the Truth.  Let others speculate about your love or motives, but the TRUTH must be first and foremost.

6. 'Nice!' is not the goal of the messenger,  but clearly conveying the Message. Giving a false impression while being 'nice!' is a most hateful thing.

Followers of the Creator have been tasked with conveying a Message from the Creator. Clarity, earnestness, logic, and science are tools in our responsibility to offer the Message of Redemption to a lost and dying world.

Don't be deceived by the spin and lies from this world and its systems. The Creator IS. He offers Redemption to those who will repent and receive it. All the evidence.. scientific, empirical,  anthropological, philosophical, historical, inferred and implied, point clearly and unequivocally to the Creator. 

Maybe you don't understand the science, but why would you doubt the CREATOR'S Word, in favor of lies from agenda driven ideologues in the world?

The truth is there, for those who seek it. This Truth is hard. It requires you to surrender all. It requires repentance and forsaking sin. It does not bring warm fuzzies, but tears.  Love drives the Message of Truth. Hate drives lies, spin, and wrong impressions. You cannot have love without Truth.

"He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it. There is nobody in the commonwealth of learning who does not profess himself a lover of truth: and there is not a rational creature that would not take it amiss to be thought otherwise of. And yet, for all this, one may truly say, that there are very few lovers of truth, for truth's sake, even amongst those who persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry: and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. The not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain receives not the truth in the love of it; loves not truth for truth's sake, but for some other bye-end." ~John Locke