I hate the evil in this world.
I hate what happened in Orlando, and Paris, and San Bernadino, and New York.
I hate the fact that there are false religions that preach death when the true God is the Creator and Sustainer of Life.
I hate that millions of voiceless lives have been snuffed out before they’ve had a chance to take their first breath.
I hate sex trafficking.
I hate substance abuse and addiction.
I hate the fact that foster care is needed because families are so dysfunctional.
I hate that there are parents and grandparents in this world who would sell their young children for a few dollars.
I hate that friends of mine have been victims of violence, abuse, rape and crime.
I hate loneliness.
I hate political corruption.
I hate hypocrisy and greed.
I hate starvation.
I hate bullying.
I hate the shadow of depression that has fallen on so many of us.
I hate apathy and inaction.
I hate disease, sickness, and cancer.
I hate hurricanes and earthquakes.
I hate hatred.
I hate death.
I hate the evil and fallen state of this present age.
And I hate that the same evil without, lurks within.
I hate that I yell at my kids.
I hate that I’m judgmental.
I hate that I struggle with selfishness and pride.
I hate that I’ve lied and cheated.
I hate that I’ve hated another.
I hate that I don’t love like I should.
I hate that I know what is right but I still do what is wrong.
For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. Romans 7:15
It’s sad, yes. It hurts, absolutely. But is it ok for me to hate?
What if there is a time to hate? To hate all that is evil and it’s source, Satan? Our love for the Holy God should result in hatred of what He hates. Wickedness, evil, sin. If we don’t hate these things, maybe we are loving the wrong things. And maybe misplaced hate is just as dangerous as Misplaced Love.
For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. John 3:20
Of utmost importance is this: God never tells us to hate another person. We are only to hate the evil that resides in us and in this world.
But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes. 1 John 2:11
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 1 John 3:15
Hating others is sinful and hateful toward God and His creation.
But we can’t stop at simply hating what God hates. We have to follows His steps toward a solution. We must walk in His steps of love. In the steps of Jesus, who, while the whole world loved darkness and was lost in sin and evil and hatred toward Him, loved. Loved unto death.
He set the pattern for how we as His disciples can deal with hate.
But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you… Luke 6:27
And we know that the world hates those of us who choose His light over darkness, who choose life over death, who choose to love Him instead of loving the world.
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. John 15:18
Let’s not fool ourselves; we can’t love and tolerate and accept everything, as the world would have us believe. We cannot serve two masters.
I pledge allegiance to the Light, Life, and Love found in Christ alone.
And because of that, there is a time to hate. More certainly, there is a time I, we, will be hated.
A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace. Ecclesiastes 3:8
In a response to a newspaper’s question, “What’s wrong with the world today?” G.K. Chesterton replied:
“Dear Sir,
I am.”
All of us are bound to answer in the same way.
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