two-faced

I had a reality check today. Someone I know, someone who, I believe, is not a believer in Jesus and therefore someone who I must show Christ's love to, no matter what, is, as my husband said, two-faced. What an interesting idiom, no? I remember in high school how the height of name calling would be to call someone two-faced...oh those words would get blood boiling, that is for sure. (And, yes, I even went to public school). Why is telling the truth so hard for some? And, if I am honest, why is it sometimes hard for me? Like today, the incident that happened was really nothing...no reason for anyone to get upset about anything, but for some reason person X didn't want person Y contacting them so person Z contacted person Y to tell them that person X didn't want anyone to contact them...AND, person X originally told person Y to please contact them. You can see the confusion and you can see how two-faced person X looks...(telling two different stories to two different people). Alas, I cannot go on fretting...you may have guessed it, I am person Y...and feel so badly that I contacted someone who didn't want to be contacted by me...but the reality is, what more do I expect from someone who doesn't know the life giving love of Christ? Is this not the world in which we live? This sort of behavior should not take me by surprise and yet I found myself feeling badly about it and wondering why so and so would "lie" as it seems, at least to me. Here is where the rubber meets the road. Here is where I can take what RL Pratt said last weekend and say, I will love my neighbor, because I love God and I want my neighbor to know His love, here's where I say, "this isn't fun anymore." And here is where God says, "I never promised fun." Yep, one more notch on the growth plate...and I'll keep on loving, both persons X and Z and pray for their salvation.