Tough Love

We serve a God that is all about tough love. That is why, for the most part, the world rejects Him and they reject us. In fact, they killed His Son because He demonstrated only tough love.

Tough love, as most of us understand it, is having wisdom enough to withhold expected or demanded help from a friend or family member not because you fail to love them, but because you do love them. That is to say, my permitting your suffering for sin, your lumps for misjudgment, your financial setbacks for poor decision making, is the far more intelligent and compassionate thing to do. It is to refuse to rob a loved one of the benefits of a lesson learned in the school of hard knocks.

We need to understand what love is and what God's love is. Not our definition but His. 1 John 4:8Loading... *...