Love does

“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth.” 1 Corinthians 13:6
In the gospels, Jesus gives us the two greatest commandments: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind; and love your neighbour as yourself (Matt. 22:37-39, Mark 12:30-31, Luke 10:27). This describes the two planes of love: first, the vertical plane, loving God, and then second, the horizontal plane, loving our fellow man.
Our first love in life should be towards God. What does someone who is in love do? They find out everything the other person likes, and tries to act in a way that pleases them. This is what we should be doing for God. He has told us in His word what He likes and what He doesn’t like. We don’t have to wonder about what pleases Him.
Here we read that loving God means not delighting in evil. We can see all kinds of evil going on in our society – people being taken for granted, people being hurt by others. It shouldn’t make us happy to see someone mistreated, or to see someone get away with doing something wrong. Following on, we read that love rejoices in the truth. We should seek after that which is true – the word of God.
Living in this way is going to make you unpopular in society. But just remember that it is the most excellent way (1 Cor. 12:31) in the eyes of God – and at the end of the day, His is the only opinion that matters.