The seeds of truth, are watered by the waters of love
@innertalks (21028)
Australia
October 6, 2023 12:35am CST
God has planted seeds of truth into every soul, and every soul can grow these seeds into trees of love, as it takes seeds of truth to grow trees of love.
Truth requires love to grow itself in you. Love requires truth to be itself in you. Love that lacks truth is not love. Truth that lacks love is not truth.
Truth and love coexist, and real love gives out its truths, as it lives alive in you, growing from the seeds of truth in you.
We need to love the truth, and we need to be truthful in our loving.
"Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy."
Warren Wiersbe, (1929 to 2019) an American clergyman, said this.
This sounds good, but in light of what I said above, it is just not true.
Truth is not real truth without love embedded within itself. Love is not real love without it speaking, and acting from truth.
We cannot have love, or truth, on its own. They work off of each other together. You cannot have one on its own, without the other being with it too.
Real love requires true truth. True truth requires real love.
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@aninditasen (15741)
• Raurkela, India
6 Oct
It's true and love with truthfulness needs nurturing with care.
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@innertalks (21028)
• Australia
6 Oct
Yes, the best kind of loving is truthful loving, and giving out this truth must be done with loving care,
Distorted, self-centred, types of love can thrust their own ideas of truth on others, without care. This is neither real love, nor real truth, though.
@aninditasen (15741)
• Raurkela, India
7 Oct
@innertalks A self centered person does the act of loving for vested interest.
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@innertalks (21028)
• Australia
7 Oct
@aninditasen Yes, love to be real love, should be given unconditionally.
@innertalks (21028)
• Australia
6 Oct
Yes, that is a beautiful point you made there.
When we encounter Jesus, we encounter both truth and love, and we are given the chance to live from both of these in our lives too, and so be set free from sin, and its hold on us, in our lives.
@innertalks (21028)
• Australia
6 Oct
Yes, water certainly sustains physical life, and the waters of love sustain spiritual life too.
@innertalks (21028)
• Australia
6 Oct
Yes, one needs the other to be itself truly.
Love works best with/from truth, and truth needs love to be itself, and to be given out purely.
@Shiva49 (26207)
• Singapore
6 Oct
I have heard of Brutal Truth and we have to bite the bullet to come to terms with it.
It looks like they are devoid of love but we can sugarcoat them with love to make it palatable.
Truth and love should go hand in hand to leave a lasting impression.
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@innertalks (21028)
• Australia
6 Oct
Most forms of such brutal truth, have lost the flavour of love, and so end up being not the full truth, but a distorted view of truth, as seen through a brutal mind, as well.
I am not sure that we should try to sugarcoat anything, with our own forms of love, as adding anything to real love, often changes the focus of that love to be more self-centred, ego-centric types of love, than real love, which is always sweet enough, on its own.
@innertalks (21028)
• Australia
7 Oct
@Shiva49 Yes, we should not thrust truth onto those not ready to receive it yet.
Jesus Christ said that he had many more things to tell them, but they were not ready to receive them yet.
@Shiva49 (26207)
• Singapore
7 Oct
@innertalks At times though there are truths that are tough for the receiver to accept.
Then with profuse love, we can lighten their impact and a slower release like extended, controlled, release medicines that are absorbed over time than otherwise would make it more palatable.
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