[Songs in the Night - September 9]
[Love] rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth. I Corinthians 13:6
HOWEVER profitable error might be, love could
take no part in it, and could not desire the reward of
evil.
But it does take pleasure in the truth—truth
upon every subject, and especially in the truth of divine
revelation, however unpopular the truth may be;
however much persecution its advocacy may involve;
however much it may cost the loss of the friendship of
this world and of those who are blinded by the god of
this world.
The spirit of love has such an affinity for
the truth that it rejoices to share loss, persecution, distress,
or whatever may come against the truth or its
servants.
In the Lord's estimate it is all the same
whether we are ashamed of him or ashamed of his
Word; and of all such he declares that he will be
ashamed when he comes to be glorified in his saints. Z'11-423 R4918:6 (Hymn 261)