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Tuesday... There is more to correcting.


2 Corinthian 2:8 (NLT), "So I urge you to reaffirm your love for him."

Tuesday... There is more to correcting.

For some, it is so easy to correct. They can have an I am better than you attitude and that definitely isn't good. But there are times that we need to correct and here in the church in Corinth, Paul in his first letter had to encourage the church to do some correcting of a man they loved but who needed to be corrected because he was hurting the church. He was a definite problem.


Sometimes because of love we want to let things slide because of the hurt correcting would cause. Yes, there can be pain. Here in his second letter Paul says in 2:5-6, "I am not overstating it when I say that the man who caused all the trouble hurt all of you more than he hurt me. Most of you opposed him, and that was punishment enough."

As I said, for some it is easy to correct but for others it isn't. But there are times when we have to correct and they did and now Paul continues.

In verse 7 he says, "Now, however, it is time to forgive and comfort him. Otherwise he may be overcome by discouragement." And then verse 8, "So I urge you to reaffirm your love for him." And that is a part of the correcting that we too many times miss and it is so important. "So I urge you to reaffirm your love for him."

Too many times we feel we are done because we have corrected them but there is more. Too many couples are good at the correcting. One lets the other one know where they were wrong and they end there. And that is where so many divorces start. What about that close friend? The same is true with our kids but here Paul says there is more. "Now, however, it is time to forgive and comfort him. Otherwise he may be overcome by discouragement." There is definetly another step in correcting.

Paul says, "So I urge you to reaffirm your love for him."

In verses 10-11 Paul says, "When you forgive this man, I forgive him, too. And when I forgive whatever needs to be forgiven, I do so with Christ's authority for your benefit, so that Satan will not outsmart us with his evil schemes."

Yes, we need to correct but there is more to correcting. "Now, however, it is time to forgive and comfort him. Otherwise he may be overcome by discouragement. So I urge you to reaffirm your love for him."

Yes, correcting is important but there is more. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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