‘Speaking the truth in love, we will grow.’ Ephesians 4:15 NIV

Before you confront someone over an issue, stop and examine your motives. Is your goal to help or humiliate them? Jesus was in the business of lifting and restoring people, and you should be in that business too. Ask yourself, would you approach things differently if you weren’t so personally involved? Are you confronting this person to make yourself look better? Cutting someone else down in order to lift yourself up is the lowest form of ego gratification.

Poet Kahlil Gibran said, ‘To belittle, you have to be little.’ Read the rest here: http://www.dailydevotionalsonline.com/index.php#thewordfortoday