If we do our best to practice the love Christ told us to, how do we do so without hurting others? Those whose unrighteous acts were driven by their misunderstanding of that same love, or a secular but still innocent good Samaritan desire to help their fellows, or by their believing they are motivated by the Holy Spirit? How do we stand up for what is right without hurting others careers, families, reputations, feelings, or sensibilities? How can we speak the truth (in love) when the truth we must speak is considered obscene, prejudiced, discriminatory or a lie by those who must hear it? When others are trying their best to do what is right but fall so far short as to do what is wrong should the righteous write a book about the situation necessarily revealing all the unrighteousness of the others?
Sometimes it seems the righteous path is a very narrow ledge along a cliff face with a bottomless void on the other side; a difficult walk at best.
Praise God for his love and promise.
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