Do you love enough?

Jude 1: 22-23 “Be merciful to those who doubt; snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.”

Sharing the life I live in Christ is no secret, and yet how much do people really know? People all around us have titles. Director, Doctor, Christian, but these are all quite general. Director of what? What kind of Doctor? Christian…what religion? God gave us a mandate to tell the world of His love and how to have a relationship with Him. This is what I was created to do. Being a follow of Christ is the best life I know. I have the awesome opportunity everyday to love someone out of hell. The question is how well am I doing that?

Honestly, I have battled with the balance of gentleness and harshness in regards to telling others about Christ. As a young Christian, I threw peoples sins in their face and demanded repentance. As you can image that didn’t go over so well. Jesus said to be merciful, to appeal to others in love. Then I loved so much I didn’t speak of the consequences as much. God also said “mixed with fear”. Fear is not a bad thing, when you become aware of dangerous consequences to your actions.
Jesus said to love others as you love yourself. If I am to truly love others, I need to be able to speak the truth.

· There is nothing wrong with saying Jesus loves you enough to die for your sins. We are kidding ourselves to think we don’t sin. Sometimes the truth hurts.
· It’s ok to say that rejecting God will one day result in eternal punishment. All decisions in life have a result, this is one of them.

I want to live my life with no regrets. So, if speaking the truth gets people angry at me, or gets me fired its ok. I will love as Jesus loved but not candy coat the truth. It’s my responsibility to pull them out of harm’s way.

Do you love someone enough to tell the truth? Maybe a better question is, what will happen if you don’t?