You Love God But Do You Hate Evil?

“Hate evil, you who love the LORD, Who preserves the souls of His godly ones; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.” Psalms 97:10

“Those who claim to love the Lord will be tested by how much they hate evil while living on this earth. A truly regenerated believer, made one with Christ and indwelt by the Holy Spirit, will love what God loves and hate what he hates. We should be vexed by the wickedness, brutality and ungodliness in the world, and grieved by the lives being destroyed by its evil; furthermore, we should be deeply distressed when sin and immorality are tolerated in God’s house.” - Donald C. Stamps

Mr. Stamps does NOT mean we hate people, but that we hate the evil that people do. This is the real challenge for today’s Christians who live in a culture where the Politically Correct police quickly try to intimidate all who do not share their views, by calling them intolerant, judgmental, and hateful. But the Bible instructs us to not be conformed to this world and its “if it feels good, do it-anything goes” ideology. No! We are to be transformed by the renewing of our minds to Christ’s way of thinking, in spite of the world’s pressures against us! Romans 12:1.

Jesus called us the salt of the earth-but if the salt loses its saltiness it is good for nothing and will be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. Matthew 5:13.

So what do we do? We love God and we learn to love what He loves and we learn to hate the evil He hates. And we can’t go wrong with that! –

Pastor Gary A. Smith

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