Love and Truth

(Joh 8:31-32) To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
(Joh 8:34-36) Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
God is love; God is also holy; God is never changing, and He is many more things. However, God places so much importance on love, the Bible says the following:
(Joh 3:16) For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
(1Co 13:13) And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
He sent “his one and only Son” to die on a cross because of his great love for us. He didn’t just die for the good people of the world; He also died for the Hitlers and the Stalins, both the good and the evil. This utterly amazes me, such great love I can not comprehend it, but it is true! He took our sentence of death because of our sin and nailed it to his cross and cleanses our sins with his blood. God even placed love above faith and hope!
But it wasn’t His love that saved me, it was His truth. I didn’t learn of His love for me until after I was saved. At this time in my life, I believed that if you did the sins you were responsible for the consequence of those sins. It was the truth that the Cross took away the consequence of death that was on my head (because of those sins), that set me free. 
Love may lead the lost to the truth, but you still have to give them the truth of their sinful state.  If Christians had just loved me, I would not be saved today. Sometimes the truth may seem like a hard thing for a lost person to bear, but given in love and in grace it will be easier for them to accept.
(Joh 4:23-24) Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
Truth is important in our relationship with both God and our spouse; it is what freedom is born of. It is what allows us to rise above our fallen state in our worship of God. It is what opens the doors to trust and openness with our spouse. Love, but don’t neglect the truth.