It is so frustrating when you have something to say, but you can't say it without hurting someone. Who benefits from a rebuke? Both? The sender or the receiver? i probably said this before, but we don't experience either enough to know what it feels like and what to do with it. Graceful rebuke is hard when it's heavily weighed in your heart as it builds up. Humble learning is difficult when you feel like someone is attacking you with criticism. One has to fall. Which one will it be? One have to yield to another, but are we ready to practice both in sending and receiving? i fear that if we don't rebuke, we will continue to think that certain inappropriate actions are permissible and we fail to see the consequences of our actions. The one rebuking might also have done an inappropriate action by wrong words or the lack of action on their part. It's not easy, but who said it was? You know what you're living for and it better be for Jesus.
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