There will be a season where God will force you into confrontations. Not to harm you but to help you.

 

Maturing in the faith is understanding hard conversations are necessary for growth. We also have a responsibility to help one another. If we never have hard conversations we aren’t being very kind.

 

I remember Corrie Ten Boom sharing a story of her relationship with a woman who was her assistant. She made it a habit to “walk in the light.”

 

“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7

 

Her habit was a practical one, as well as spiritual. It was that if there were any questions being pondered in the heart, any silent offenses stirring up the devil’s pot, or any sign of the heart bleeding sorely that it would be talked out fully and brought into the light.

 

I’ve found personally that when this doesn’t happen, nothing can be remedied. Many a relationship is lost in the body of Christ because someone refused to walk in the light.

 

I keep telling our women here, “Honesty is still the best policy.”

 

Honesty with God, honesty with myself, and honesty with others.

 

What in our lives might quickly be reconciled if we were brave enough to bring all things into the light?

 

Long lost relationships would not be torn to pieces had an honest conversation occurred.

 

Repentance of a harmful hurt might bring about a much needed change should someone approach the hard conversation.

 

And perhaps we might find ourselves being groomed as God’s leaders should we learn the art of “walking in the light.”

 

Why is this so hard for us when we know full well that the truth is what sets us free?

 

Where in our lives are we dancing with the devil in dark places?

 

Walk it into the light and watch what Christ does with that simple act of obedience.