Love Does Not Delight In Evil But Rejoices With The Truth 1 Corinthians 13:6

[nancyshanice]

Ask everyone to finish this sentence: "Love is _____________." Some of the phrases from 1 Corinthians 13 will be suggested, but one undoubtedly will not. It is this:

"Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth"

Why is that a characteristic of love?

What we delight in we will share with those we love. A person who enjoys fine dining will want to take others to his favorite restaurants. The sports fan will tell others about his love of the game. A collector may try to get her friends involved in her hobby. We want our interests to be their interests.

If we delight in evil, the same will be true. We will want those around us to be involved in the same things, in the same way. This is a sad but unmentioned truth.

Our desire should be to help others become more like Christ. Paul even said that a husband should love his wife as Christ loved the church, giving Himself for her "to make her holy.

Do you see how delighting in evil works against that? If we delight in evil, then we are bringing into others' lives that which pulls them away from Christ. Love does not do that. It desires that others would "rejoice with the truth."

Are there things in your life that are wrong? Don't think about only yourself, but also about how you influence others with what you delight in. Determine to get the wrong out and the right in.

[Gladys]

It was love that forced God to sacrifice His only Son to die for sinners so that they may have eternal life. God hate sin but loves a sinner. Like Jesus, as His followers if one of us fall into sin we are not supposed to feel happy instead we have to look for a way of removing him from sin in a polite and a loving way.

[lynkez]

When you love someone you avoid all deceits for fear of hurting him/her. That is why God’s condition less and boundless love led to the sacrifice of a life so precious to save many other lives. Love should bring purpose/meaning and satisfaction. It plants trust and multiplies joy for it gives one a reason to smile. Whoever tells you lies does not love you but wishes ill for you.

[luicer]

I believe that love is first of all a choice. It is a decision. You can choose to love someone unconditionally or you can choose not to. Love is understanding- knowing anything and everything about a person and still caring for them and wishing to provide the best for them. It is being able to know all of their deepest, darkest, and dirtiest problems and mistakes, and feeling all the more close to them because of them.