Truth

What if speaking truth meant broken relationship?  Is the cost worth it?  What if the message you needed to give would devastate another?  The message; spoken in love and truth severing the relationship.  The recipient unwilling or unprepared or unable to understand; emotion masking the message in a way that it will take time to process.  Is it worth it?  But, what if the message, once understood would bring life and hope and strength and health.  Who is injured more?  Who is stronger?  The message bringer or the message receiver?  And the cost, is living in a lie easier than broken healing in the truth?  Our humanness is rooted in brokenness desperate for restoration-only we don't know it really or see it fully.  We cannot comprehend it.  Truth cuts.  It prunes. It severs.  And, truth heals.  That Jesus Christ would speak truth, that his Father would release Jesus to face suffering, torture, and rejection so that we would be restored is incomprehensible.  It is also where hope is.  And faith.  And trust.  And love.  The cost of bringing truth is much higher for the message bearer, the risk is greater.  So when truth is given, receive it. And when truth is needed to be spoken, say it.