Meekness

I wonder about being honest sometimes.  Like, blatantly, unashamedly, explicitly honest.  I wonder how that would come across to people.  Now, i am not talking about saying the first thing that comes to mind without foresight or regard for others.  But just plain, truth telling.

Would people like me more or less if i was simply honest with them.  I think less.  I think people would like me less.  Maybe that is why i don't like Jesus.  The Jesus i read about in the Bible.  Because he is blatantly open with people.  And so he sounds kind of cocky.  Like a know-it-all.

And that is why i am not always candid with people.  Because i do not know it all.  I could be being honest, but my honest opinion, even if it is well thought out and heart-felt, may not be truth.  I think honesty needs truth.  And unlike Jesus, i do not hold the truth in myself.  I am flawed.  And no matter how sure of myself i am, i am not necessarily going to be correct.  And so i do not speak everything that is on my mind.  Because it may just be falsehood.  I may just be false.