A pertinent word from the morning reading. Regarding speaking words of truth and serving one another through loving admonishment as brothers and sisters in Christ, and in Christian community:
"God's Word serves humankind by judging it. Those who allow God's judgment to serve themselves are helped. This is the place where the limitation of all human action toward one another becomes obvious. "Truly, no ransom avails for one's life, there is no price one can give God for it. For the ransom of life is costly, and can never suffice." (Psalm 49:8f.) This renunciation of our own ability is precisely the prerequisite for, and the acknowledgement of, the redeeming help that only the Word of God can give to others. The ways of other Christians are not in our hands; we cannot hold together what is going to break into pieces. We cannot keep alive what is intent on dying. But God joins together in breaking, creates community in division, confers grace through judgment."
(Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Life Together"; p.106)
