[Love] does not rejoice over injustice
but rejoices in the truth . . . 1 Corinthians 13:6, TLV
Love that Carries Through. Injustice comes in different forms. As redeemed children of our Heavenly Father, we can choose to rejoice in truth or in being justified. There is a difference. Sometimes it seems that those who hate us or our values are never meted with “true” justice. It seems the injustice targets us who rejoice in GOD’s truth, doesn’t it?
However, injustice falls on all like the rays of sun or the torrents of rain. Here’s the true “love” question: do we rejoice when injustice falls on our “enemies” or the “enemies” of our beliefs? What do I mean by this?
Say someone steels our lawnmower, then a few days later that person is in a car accident. Do we rejoice? Feel somehow vindicated? I have to do some deep soul-searching to catch myself from letting even a wisp of that attitude creep into my heart.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the worldly forces of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6:12, TLV)
If we knit together Paul’s messages to the believers in Corinth and Ephesus, we get a clearer understanding of how that “true love” works out in our daily life.
There’s also another key element and that is that our Heavenly Father wants all His children to choose to be redeemed. His heart aches for any soul eternally lost from His love. It is that perspective we need to hold to. This doesn’t mean we condone sin — not at all. We just need to remember that as we once were, there are those lost from the eternal embrace of the Creator of the Universe. That should make us sad, too.
Does our love carry through to real life? It’s not easy, but living this way keeps us whole and rejoicing in truth.
