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Love doesn’t go passive and stay silent in the face of wrong. Love doesn’t mean I turn the tables and work to make you hurt in the same way you have hurt me. Love doesn’t turn its back on you because you are wrong. Love doesn’t ignore wrong and hope it goes away. The Cross of Jesus Christ is the only model you need of what love does in the face of wrong. No, I’m taking about choosing not to ignore wrong, but dealing with wrong with the same grace that you have been given by God. Now, I’m not talking about being self-righteous, judgmental, critical, and condemning. We are unwilling to make the hard personal sacrifices that are the call of real love. I think often we opt for silence, willingly avoiding issues and letting wrong things go on unchecked, not because we love the other person, but because we love ourselves and just don’t want to go through the hassle of dealing with something that God says is clearly wrong. So, I am committed to being God’s tool for what he says is best in your life, even if that means we have to go through tense and difficult moments to get there. If love wants and works for what is best for you, then love is committed to being part of what God says is best in your life.

Truth and love are inextricably bound together. Real, biblical, self-sacrificing, God-honoring love never compromises what God says is right and true.

Maintaining peace at any cost isn’t love.

Remaining silent when I should speak up isn’t love.

Refusing to step into tense moments with others because there is wrong between us that needs to be exposed and discussed isn’t love.

Asking others to tolerate whatever I do or say because they say they love me is a fundamental misunderstanding of what love is and what love does.

Living inside of a circle of evil and not making waves may cause people to like me, but it isn’t love.

Saying, “It’s okay - don’t worry about it,” to a person who did something wrong is not really loving.

Tolerating things that are wrong in the eyes of God may create a comfortable surface peace, but it isn’t what love does.

Well, there are an awful lot of things that we call love that don't rise to the level of what love is and what love does.

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