Speaking Truthfully

Jeremiah's question highlights God's focus on practical truthfulness in people's lives. The prophet depicted a society riddled with deceit, leading to broken trust, infidelity, and denial of God's hand. In contrast, God values and approves of sincerity and genuine faith. Truthful individuals, though sometimes hidden, have a powerful influence, capable of securing God's favor and even impacting communities. Hypocrisy is futile and harmful, while truthfulness is essential for genuine connection with God and others.

The article focusses on age of instant digital communication, unjust, uncharitable, or untrue speech can spread far and wide and bring destructive consequences within the human community. It mentions Thomas Aquinas examines injuries inflicted upon a neighbor through another's speech and Aquinas's treatment as sins against commutative justice. It also mentions Aquinas anticipates the spiritual teaching of the early seventeenth-century bishop of Geneva, Francis de Sales.