I see many, who call themselves Christians, virtue-signaling about how they love everyone (we should) while criticizing others for calling out the sin that is destroying the lives of those they “love”.

They post platitudes like “love is love” and lecture others for calling wrong things wrong, while pompously thinking themselves more loving and more spiritually mature.

However, the Bible says, “But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.” Hebrews‬ ‭5:14‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Those who are mature practice discernment —distinguishing good from evil.

That requires us to call some things “good” and some things “bad”, and the lost world we live in calls that practice “judging”.

Like me, you probably hear the phrase “don’t judge” a lot in our world and often out of the mouths of people who consider themselves the most “loving and empathetic.”

However, these people are dangerously confused and are, in fact, “loving” others all the way to Hell.

The enemy is using this to silence many from discerning truth and speaking truth to each other about sin, because the evil one knows the truth will set us free.

Spurgeon once said, “do not give fair names to foul sins”.

I’m thankful for people in my life who recognized my sin for what it was—foul and loved me enough to call it wrong, and talk to me about it.

Those dear friends were absolutely being loving because they wanted nothing to stand in the way of my relationship with God.

I guess they could have been worried that I would tell them, “Stop judging me,” or “you aren’t being loving”—but I’m so thankful they knew the difference between judging to condemn (which a Christian is not to do) and a discerning judgment of fruit (which a Christian is to do).

The father of all lies is skilled in taking the very words of God out of context. This is why it is so important for Christians to know all of God’s Word and to read it in context.

Yes, God does say in Matthew 7:1, “Judge not, that you be not judged.” (And this seems to be the favorite verse of those up to their eyeballs in sin).

Yet, God goes on to say in the very same chapter that we can “know them by their fruits” and that “every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit” (vv. 16–17).

Let’s call wrong things wrong, not celebrate them.

If we truly love others, we have to, in love, help them know what God says about how we are to live and be vulnerable enough to let others help us.

Yes! Pray fervently before you ever open your mouth. Stay connected to God, and trust Him to give you the words. Love others, but speak truth to them in love and with godly motives.

Because the truth…it sets us FREE!

“But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.” (Heb 5:14)

“The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse”. (Prov 10:32, ESV)

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