Someone can genuinely love…and still love poorly.
Someone can love…while also living inside denial.
Someone can love…while choosing deception to protect themselves.
That doesn’t make the deception okay.
It simply means human love and God’s love are not identical. Jesus revealed God’s love as integrated with truth. *
Ours often isn’t. Being able to accept this allows us the humility to anchor our understanding on His perfect love so we can love well.
*1 Corinthians 13:6 “Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth"
John 4:24: "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth."
Ephesians 4:15 tells believers to practice "speaking the truth in love" to reflect the nature of Jesus, who came full of grace and truth John 1.14
1 John 3:18: "Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”
Psalm 117:2: "For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever."
Psalm 86:15: "But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness."
Psalm 89:14: "Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and faithfulness go before you."
Proverbs 3:3: "Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart."
