LOVE HATES EVIL (1 Cor 13:6; Rom 12:9) Realism is the secret of love’s patience. Love is not idealism; it does not have to be fanatic it is not hysterical; it knows the world is not going to fall apart unless we immediately clean up every mess. Love’s patience is no mushy fantasy that people are all really very nice. Love knows that we live in a mixture of good and evil. Love knows that life now is ambiguous. But love can bear it. Love can even rejoice in this mixed up life because it rejoices with the truth, the Truth who will “reconcile all things to himself” (Col. 1:20) and thus make the whole world true again. Love manages well in a world like ours; but love never approves of the evil that makes our good world the mixed reality it is. --from Love Within Limits by Lewis B. Smedes (pg 92)
Posted on: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 00:09:04 +0000
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