It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.

1 Corinthians 13:6 NLT

Love is never on the side of injustice. 

Love is realistic enough to know it exists, Love doesn't operate in some utopia, but is prepared to be where there is injustice.

Love knows that there's a battle. I know it, because sometimes injustice benefits me, and it can be a tricky thing to enjoy the benefits knowing they've come from someone else's loss, at someone else's cost. 

(The last car I sold I listed all the faults I knew of, some of which a buyer would not easily be aware of. To have been paid more than the car was really worth would have been injustice that I could have celebrated. The history of NZ is littered with injustice, many of which I have indirectly benefitted from).

Love rejoices when the truth wins. 

When the light shines in the darkness, when evil is exposed, when injustice is put right, when good is done, when lies are defeated. 

Love is always on the side of justice. 

Nations, institutions, churches, groups, individuals can all be sources of and places where injustice is found. 

Love then is called to stand with, stand in front of, those who suffer injustice, those marginalised, left behind, left out by nations, institutions, churches and people. 

Jesus did that, and calls us to follow him. 

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