Love, and hate are mutually exclusive. Or at least they should be.
It doesn’t seem like that should be that hard of a conclusion to arrive at. I was driving down the road the other day and I saw a car that had a love Jesus bumper sticker and a "Let's Go Brandon" sticker. I’m not gonna explain what a let's go Brandon sticker means - you can look that up online. But loving Jesus and saying "let's go Brandon" are mutually exclusive statements because one is about love and one is about hate. And I would say that if it was an anti-Trump bumper sticker as well.
First Corinthians makes it clear that if you do all these things, but have not love you’ve missed the mark. Christians should not just strive to love. But in striving to love, they should strive to reject and move away from anything that smacks of hatred or anything that smacks of judgment. You can dislike a politician, and I dislike several. But when our language and our hearts are filled with hate and animosity toward Republicans or Democrats or CNN or Fox News, then we have forgotten that we are called to love. Jesus welcomed, everyone: Jews, Samaritans, the rich, the poor Romans, tax collectors, fisherman, really he welcomed everyone. Love doesn’t mean love the ones you like and be nasty to the ones you don’t. Love and hate are mutually exclusive.
1 John 4
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
It's a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see the good.
First Corinthians makes it clear that if you do all these things, but have not love you’ve missed the mark. Christians should not just strive to love. But in striving to love, they should strive to reject and move away from anything that smacks of hatred or anything that smacks of judgment. You can dislike a politician, and I dislike several. But when our language and our hearts are filled with hate and animosity toward Republicans or Democrats or CNN or Fox News, then we have forgotten that we are called to love. Jesus welcomed, everyone: Jews, Samaritans, the rich, the poor Romans, tax collectors, fisherman, really he welcomed everyone. Love doesn’t mean love the ones you like and be nasty to the ones you don’t. Love and hate are mutually exclusive.
1 John 4
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
It's a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see the good.
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