For What it’s Worth…

This week as a staff team we were reading a small chapter from Charles Bridges’ book, The Christian Ministry, on “The Fear of Man”. Bridges speaks of the straightforward manner in which we should speak, and how our fear often keeps our mouths closed, or, causes us to disguise our words because of our fear of being thought ill of.
Bridges writes, “The offensive truth must be smoothed, disguised and intermixed, until it is attenuated into an insipid, pointless, and inoperative statement”.
Is our tendency to back off and not speak, or speak in such a way as to mute our words, when our conscience is telling us that the godly course is to ‘speak the truth in love’.
In answer, Bridges encourages a ‘holy but humble indifference to all consequences’, entrusting their response to the Lord. Will we pray that God will make us faithful?