Love Is: Truth

In I Corinthians 13:6, it says that love rejoices with the truth. We can start to see that Paul was trying to convey that love, joy and truth are all connected.

Love, joy and truth are are all qualities of God’s character. God is love (I John 4:8) and truth (John 14:6) and in him there is joy (Psalm 16:11). I read in an article once, “Where there is no truth, joy is fleeting and there is no love.”

In the book The Meaning of Marriage, Tim Keller writes, “To be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.” He goes on to say, “Truth enables us to be truly known and loved. And in that, we can rejoice.”

In my own experience with dating I can remember trying to “be someone else” to try & impress a guy. I remember thinking, well he might like be better if I don’t tell him the 100000% truth. What I have learned is that if you don’t have truth or trust in a relationship, you have nothing. When I met my husband, he made it so easy for me to be myself, and even in those little truths of who I am….we both rejoiced. Because we were both able to be truthful of who we are, in turn we felt truly known & accepted….which led to love.

We all crave unconditional love. I think it’s part of our nature as human beings. We all want to feel fully known & accepted. In order to give & receive that from another human, we must start with the truth.