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This is The Age of Hate

 


I have become rather concerned by what I see happening in this world. When we become known only for what we hate, have we ceased being Christians to an extent? For Jesus said, “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:35) “But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches,” (Revelation 2:4-5), and “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:30-31). In all these words of Jesus we are told to love our neighbor, to love one another, and that people will know we are disciples of Christ by out love (see the song at the end of this blog post). There is nothing in there about do not love one another if the person was pro Cesar or Pro Senate, is Pro Democrat or Pro Republican, is a Naturalist or Industrialist, is Liberal or Conservative. There is no loophole folks, you are suppose to love a Democrat Christian and Republican Christian, love a Climate Christian or a Capitalist Christian or even if they are these and are not Christians, and they are your neighbor! 


I am very worried we are becoming Sith were we have become captives to our fears which makes us angry and now its matured to hate, “fear is the path to the dark side: fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.” (Yoda, The Phantom Menace). Its interesting Jesus in Ben Hur 2016 mentions that same triad of fear, anger, and hate, “Hate, anger and fear are lies they make you carry to turn you against each other, when you set aside your hate you see love is our true nature.” I am very worried we are transforming into hate acolytes, that we have allowed politics, social issues, and ideologies outside The Bible to make us enemies when we are Christians. Each of us will have to answer to Christ for how we vote and the things we supported on Earth, but to sling stones of ire at one another; to show the world that we are seething with hate, when we profess to follow a God of Love (1 John 4:18), will they not say of us, as I watched in documentary of missionaries, “are Christians different? Those responding: no.  Just busy on Sundays.”  Oh please Lord Jesus our Savior let it not be so! 


Our hearts are hardening.. hate has so many captives right now. You may not like the politics of your fellow brother in Christ, but if you hate them beware!, “If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.” (1 John 4:20), and “Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” (1 John 3:15). Love in contrast to hate is thus, “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” (1 Corinthians 13:4-7). Notice love is not irritable or rude, and yet what do we see in news as each side calls each other horrible names and threatens what should happen to one another if their side wins. Make no mistake its not love in the air or even truth, because love and the truth are connected, for Jesus is love (1 John 4:18) and Truth (John 14:6). 


There is only one way we are going to set aside our bullhorn and keyboard and touch screen of hate for one another, that is fixing our eyes on love itself, Jesus, “fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:2). Only Christ can show us how to get back to loving one another as He commands (Mark 12:30-31), “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5). Apart from Jesus we cannot surmount fear, anger, and hate. Only The Light of the World can help us banish these and replace it with “The Way, The Truth, and The Life,” which again is Him! Amen. 


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