When we choose to hate rather than love we bring confusion in our own belief's. How can we hate and still love?Our emotions judge our feelings and to create the perception of hate and love.We were told not to hate our brothers and sisters and love our enemies and the questions of who is our brother or the enemy? We were also told to hate the "things" of the world but many didn't read "the things" they just reading the world.When words are not interpreted or read for clarity we become confused.What are the things of the world we should hate?The word "things"means people of the world that do worldly things such as sin against God.What are worldly things and why should we hate them?Anything that God hates we should hate as believers.Does God hate everything the people of the world do? Certainly God created all things of the world and the people. So it is the things they do or the sin right? A real paradox for us to figure out and know that the word hate seems too strong for us to do as loving believers. We resist hate in our words and feel it in our emotions when we see or hear things that world is doing.We really can't change our hatred into love without an understanding of why we hate.Hate comes from our love and trust in our God and the honor and respect for His authority. We hate that which is not our perception of how God would react to sins of the world.It is interesting that God so loved us and send His only begotten son to die for something He hated.This is very confusing isn't it?Does God loves the sinner and hate the sin? Or does God just love?We have to understand what sin is and why it plays an important part in the world don't we?As good and evil are present in everything so is the love of God in all.So the balance of hate and love of our own emotions God's love is in these also.We can hate and love at the same time and feel all the same emotion.We love our brothers and sisters but sometimes we hate the things they do.We judge even though we are told not too.The believer is discerning in their emotions but not blaming in their words.The process of using spiritual discernment is a type of judging used by every believer filled with the Holy Spirit.Sometimes hating something or someone takes conviction to come from their own connections with the Holy Spirit. As the hateful feelings rise up in the emotions the believer gets wisdom in God's word to ease the distress by hating anything.We called this transcending the emotions and directing them to the Holy Spirit to "take this cup from us so to speak."We don't want to hate we want to love as God loves us.We want to be filled with God's love more than the love we have experienced on Earth.The love of a father for His child is the love we seek to overcome the world's love and hatred.When we have knowledge of the hate and love of the world and turn to God's love we will not have the emotions of hate and love of the world.How can we hate the world and love God who created the world? We can transcend the hate and know we are not of the world but in the world.
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