FRIENDS TELL YOU THE TRUTH
Will you be patient and let me a say a word? For who could keep from speaking out?” (Job 4:1-2 NLT)
We must have relational bonds with those who dare to tell us the truth when we need to hear it.
Job’s Friends had the trust to correct him.
- The bonds of friends help us withstand problems more.
- There is power in friendship bonds.
- There is joy in friendship bonds.
- There is healing in relational bonds.
- But there is also accountability within a group with whom we have deep relational bonds.
In a group of high trustworthiness and profound harmony, I permit my friends to tell me when I am wrong. I allow them to correct me and tell me the truth when I am confused and overwhelmed due to an emotional crisis.
I permit them to draw me out of depression when I let go of my emotions and give room to toxic thoughts.
We should have relational bonds with people that dare to tell us the truth when we need to hear it.
Think about it:
Whom do you have in your life that has the trust to speak the truth to you? Even when it hurts?
Have you permitted your closest circle of friends to correct you?
To whom have you been that friend?