Sometimes people might betray us with the best of intentions. For example if you are being hit by your husband, you may confide in a friend and that friend might seek help on your behalf… that is a kind of betrayal… but it is a KIND betrayal.

Bono is reported to have said that “in order to love the world, we must first betray it.”

This is true of many things.
In order to love people well, we must understand them; their faults and issues and what they need. We must then be wholehearted in loving them anyway. Love is blind, but true love wears dark glasses.

Sometimes the easy thing to do is stay silent. Nearly always in fact.
But that may not be what people need. Someone around you might need to “dob them in”… to offer some sort of ‘kind betrayal’ in order to help them get something right today. It is a dangerous path to tread.. but there are too few people willing to get stuck in and make a difference…

So, do you know someone with a destructive habit or mindset that you need to pray into and challenge?
Do you know someone who lives outside their means and then blames everyone else when they can’t afford to buy shoes?
Do you know someone who is constantly stressed at their children because they have taken on too much?

Perhaps you need to offer a word of kind betrayal today.