Love Thinks No Evil – part 1 (1Cor 13.5)

FaithWorking Radio – Episode 17 – Love Thinks No Evil (1Cor 13.5)

Podcast intro

When we have been wronged (or think we have been), we want to rehearse it over and over again. And we want to add it to our film library of past wrongs. And we want to keep counting up all the films in our library regarding each person we deal with. This process of repeatedly adding up the score is what love does not do according to Paul: “Love thinks no evil.” (1Cor 13.5.) Indeed, this is what Paul says God did not do when He gave His Son to die for our sins (2Cor 5.19). God had a perfect accounting of our sins, but He did not keep rehearsing them and totaling them up. And here we see the great paradox that the more we rehearse others’ sins, the less accurately we see them, and the less we rehearse them, the more accurately we see them – and the more like God we are. I hope you enjoy the radio show. Thanks for listening. –Alan Burrow