Side with love or side with truth?
Benevolent fool or intelligent brute.
If you choose a side, you choose to lose.
And if you don’t, they’ll crucify you.
Brutal is truth without love.
A lifeless Book and flightless Dove.
The Lord of push and King of shove.
Horrendous nightmare, without love.
Dishonest is love without truth.
A spineless show. A happy rouse.
Massaging the neck while tightening the noose.
Sweetly fall to your death, without the truth.
Wrenchingly narrow is the Way,
Of loving truth in such a day;
Or of truthful love which dares to say,
“Your debt of sin, God’s Son has paid.”
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“Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into Christ.” (Eph. 4:15)