1 Corinthians 13:6a Rejoiceth not in iniquity

Have you ever been glad to see that certain person get caught doing what you suspected all the time? Most of the time it is a big splash on the television news, maybe in a newspaper, but never discovered by a gossip. What, wait, a gossip brought you the news?

How did you come to be comfortable with this secret knowledge that you had confidence of guilt? If you depend on the old adage that where there is smoke there is fire, it just might be that someone is blowing smoke.

Celebrity is fair game in this world. Everyone loves to speculate about how unperfect their life really is compared to the publicist’s spin. After all the rich can afford someone to paint their landscape. But what about the common man? How about your acquaintances, perhaps friends and relatives? Do they deserve privacy?

It doesn’t make us a better person to see others fall. If we take pleasure in it, that makes us less than we should be. But without it where would all those scandal sheets at the checkout stand be? Ground up and recycled would be the best place.

Oh, did I get this wrong? Do you think that rejoicing in sin is about taking pleasure in our own sin?

If you are thinking along those lines allow me to point out something that should be obvious.

If you can take pleasure in sin, you have a bigger problem than sin.

You are not in Christ.