Truth
or
Lies
Relationship Secrets Can Cost You!
Come on,
we’re all adults, aren’t we? What
are you afraid of, Truth or Lies?
If you don’t want to say what
you think to another person, you are not being honest, and telling them
later will hurt them. It is harder to say things to another person when
you have broken down the walls and entered into a relationship. They
thought you and them had an understanding, that there were no secrets
between you. Bad time to come up with what you should have said in the
beginning.
People who hold
back on other people do so because they
have manipulated the other person through feelings and emotions. They
have played their cards so that now they have the control. Some people
would rather know the truth regardless of their emotions, and others
prefer to be lied to right on.
So how do you tell
someone something but you are unsure
of how they will take it. Take a lesson from a Biblical example. After
David the King had committed adultery with the wife of one of his
soldiers and had him killed to cover up what he had done, Nathan, a
trusted advisor went to David and this is what he told him:
“Now a
traveler came to the rich man, but the rich
man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a
meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe
lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had
come to him."
David burned with anger against the man and said to the trusted advisor
Nathan:"As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to
die! He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a
thing and had no pity."
Then Nathan said to
David, "You are the man!”
Nathan went on to
relate what David had done in details.
He used a story to cause King David to tap into his sense of justice,
right and wrong, which opened the door for Nathan to help King David to
be restored, to admit his wrong and to seek forgiveness.
David being king
had a choice to make. When you come
clean with a person be prepared for the consequences. That
relationship, marriage, etc. could be over.
Here is the secret:
Seek to build a relationship on
TRUTH because lies can be life altering. Treat others as you would want
to be treated.
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