Love and Truth (God is Love part four)
"Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth." - 1 Corinthians 13:6 Here we come to the second-to-last post in my series God is Love, going through 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 and discovering how the various attributes of love adhere to God, because He is love (1 John 4:16). First up, what does delighting in evil look like? Well, we know that evil and sin are the same thing (in the ESV version it says "[Love] does not rejoice at wrongdoing," aka, sin), thus sin is evil, and doing evil is sin. You could rephrase the first part of that verse as "Love does not delight in sin." Man, that packs a punch. Love doesn't delight in sin. But, we've still got the question, what does delighting in sin look like? It looks like being glad when we've rejected or ignored God in favor of our own ways. It looks like enjoying other people's failures so we can feel better about ourselves. Delighting in sin takes lots of forms, but