It literally takes 3 minutes to get from my house to Winco.
3 minutes. How can my whole idea of marriage communication be changed in 3
minutes? Well Chuck can do that to you. He wasn’t talking about marriage
actually he was talking about watering down the gospel and preaching what you
think people want to hear. He said you don’t go to the Doctor who will tell you
what you want to hear. You go to the Doctor who will speak truth.'
Can you imagine? 'Well this patient might be upset to find out he has 2 months to live....so I'll tell him he's fine!'
That hit me like a ton of bricks. I don’t want my husband to
tell me what he thinks I want to hear. I want the truth, even if it hurts. If he tells me what I WANT to hear I’ll end up making the same chicken dish once a month for 2 years! 2 years of chicken neither of us liked!!! All because he thought I’d be offended if he told me the truth. Now I would be lying if I said I always have wanted the truth from him. The
truth can be offensive sometimes right? I mean when you point out
someone’s selfishness or their lack of self-discipline that could definitely hurt
them and that COULD hurt us. Done with callousness for their feelings or with wrong motivations
Speaking Truth is a poison laced dagger.
Tomorrow I will let my husband know that I have been telling
him what he wants to hear for almost 11 years. I’ll then ask him if he would
like me to start speaking Truth to him. ( I’ve been sneaking it in every now
and again, but not consistently.) Sure he might say, nah keep lying to me…. But
I highly doubt that will happen.
Ruth A.
