There are Those

Scripture Reading: Proverbs 30:10-14

Love requires us to believe the best about others. That is what Paul meant when he wrote “love believes all things.” He didn’t mean that to love is to be gullible. He meant that when we love our default setting is to assume the best about others. We assume they have good motives and that they are doing their best. We believe the best about them until…

Love is not gullible. To love doesn’t mean we aren’t realistic about the potential evil that exists in the fallen human heart. It doesn’t mean we don’t understand that people can be horrible. It just means we don’t start there. We don’t start with the assumption that the person with whom we are dealing is acting wickedly. We don’t start there but we also aren’t unwilling to go there.

Agur acknowledges in Proverbs 30 that “There are those that curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers…who are clean in their own eyes…whose teeth are swords…” There are those kinds of people.

Believe the best about people but be aware too. There are those…