Love rejoices in all that is true – it never rejoices in injustice.
That’s a pretty heavy statement.
Our pride can be a vicious thing. It can really skew our thinking and reactions. We tend to like it when an ‘enemy’ is evil spoken of even if it is not true.
This is a special and obvious danger on social media where it happens all the time. Truth and justice mean nothing if our cause is helped and the other guy is hurt. In reality though true love, God’s love, the love we are supposed to show our enemies, never rejoices in injustice for anyone. We rejoice in truth even when we don’t get our way.
Truth seems to have become a throwaway in our social media world. Truth doesn’t really matter if a lie or misdirection or a deception serves our cause or supports our point of view.
That is not God’s way. That’s why truth is so important. That’s we we need to be careful about posting or retweeting or sharing things that are not true. So many of them are posted to get a laugh or mock or put down our ‘enemies’ or to score cheap points in a political debate.
Love never takes joy or uses injustice. Love always wants the truth.
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