1 Corinthians 13:6
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
Repeat this verse over and over again.
Now meditate on what it means for your life.
John MacArthur says....
Love controls your tongue. Love prevents you from a salacious way gloating over the iniquities of other people because you don’t like them anyway, because they did something to you, or because it makes you feel more virtuous because you have sins that fit into a different category all together. Love doesn’t do that. Never rejoices in iniquity.
Certainly it couldn’t, and here’s why, how could any Christian ever rejoice in any case over something that offends God? Get a perspective. Love finds no satisfaction in passing on somebody else’s iniquities, rehearsing somebody else’s iniquities, parading somebody else’s iniquities to further offend God....
Love tells the truth and it rejoices to tell the truth....Love is honest. It doesn’t lie to flatter. It doesn’t lie to falsely protect. It loves truth, it rejoices in truth. It will always speak the truth. It will celebrate the truthfulness, the honesty, the integrity of others....because telling the truth builds strong relationships, telling lies destroys relationships.....Sometimes the truth is painful but we speak the truth in love....Sometimes the truth is encouraging and comforting and winsome and brings a benediction. And sometimes the truth is convicting and painful and brings a condemnation. But loving people always speak the truth.
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