On which no one should reside...
I live in one of the most prejudiced, biased, bigoted cities ever, and I gotta tell you, it isn't easy to deal with! Many of the people who cry prejudice are SO prejudice that they CAN'T hear, or see reason! I have never been prejudice, but I have always had to suffer from it, even from the very people who don't want anyone else to be prejudice against them! I really don't understand any of it, because it, honestly, doesn't make any sense, and doesn't bring anything good to the table...
When I moved here, I was shocked by the extent of the hatred coming from all sides! It is NOT a good thing for SO many people to be brought into this kind of hatred, and then, further encouraged to grow in it! Such mentalities DEFEAT not only people, but the HOPE of ever growing past such! There is NO room for growth, development, or change, because ALL the people have hard heads, and hearts, based on untruths, and worldly ways! IF more people had been raised by THE LORD, and HIS WILL, they would understand that all these negatives are works of the devil, and ARE designed to keep *GOD'S* Children in shackles...
We ARE taught to leave ALL partiality behind, for *GOD* CREATED ALL on this Earth, and in the HEAVENS ABOVE! Those who ARE IN CHRIST JESUS ARE ONE; there is NOTHING to separate us from that ONENESS; we are ALL HIS Children, WHOM HE CREATED according to HIS LOVE, and WILL, FOR great purpose, according to HIS PLAN, and I imagine, HIS own pleasure(s)! OBVIOUSLY, HE LIKES diversity; the Earth IS teeming with it, and so, WHO am I to question HIM, and WHY would I want to?, I TOO, LIKE the diversity!!!
HOW can I hate someone I don't know, based on external criteria? It DOESN'T make the least bit of sense to me! I have been judged on sight most of my life, and it is a most difficult thing to deal with, especially since those doing the judging have NO knowledge of me whatsoever, nor do they desire to! So, right here, we see the senselessness in all this! IF we DON'T know someone, on what basis does hate stand???
Right now, things are heating up, and unfortunately, TOO many young people HAVE been raised in hate, and unfair presumptions of others, based on externals, SO volatile hostilities ARE on the agenda as the younger people, fueled by their incomplete knowledge, and ideals, make their statements, and fight their battles, HOWEVER, very few of them will have ANY measure of truth involved, instead, emotional irrationality! BUT, LOTS of innocent, unsuspecting people will be harmed, or worse!!!
THEREFORE, it IS time to come to terms with this senseless, age-old, counter-productive enemy!!!
It IS time to STOP acting in hate, and START existing in LOVE! LOVE IS THE LAW, point blank, and DOES HEAL people, and circumstances! Christians ESPECIALLY OUGHT TO KNOW *GOD* well enough to KNOW that he who DOES *GOD'S* WILL IS he who WILL be saved! *GOD'S* WILL IS LOVE, and PEACE, and ALL which accompany, and comprise such! What is GOOD, RIGHT, and JUST IS THE WAY we have been taught, and it CAN'T be found IF we are meeting one another with teeth bared, and gnarling hisses, like the evil ruler of this realm!!!
Personally, I think MOST hatred is well, deficient, and definitely, based on ignorance; CERTAINLY for those who CLAIM to LOVE THE LORD! It is WRONG as wrong can be, BECAUSE for one thing, it LEADS people to sin gravely, which means enmity with THE LORD!!!
PROVERBS 10: 12...
Hate stirs up strife; but LOVE covers all offenses...
LOVE IS LIKE THE LIGHT, it SEARS through hate, just as LIGHT sears through the darkness! Those who LOVE *GOD*;
1 JOHN 1: 5-8...
5+++This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
6+++If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;
7+++but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
8+++If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
A message from the Lord Jesus, the Word of life, the eternal Word, we should all gladly receive. The great God should be represented to this dark world, as pure and perfect light. As this is the nature of God, his doctrines and precepts must be such. And as his perfect happiness cannot be separated from his perfect holiness, so our happiness will be in proportion to our being made holy.
To walk in darkness, is to live and act against religion. God holds no heavenly fellowship or intercourse with unholy souls. There is no truth in their profession; their practice shows its folly and falsehood. The eternal Life, the eternal Son, put on flesh and blood, and died to wash us from our sins in his own blood, and procures for us the sacred influences by which sin is to be subdued more and more, till it is quite done away. While the necessity of a holy walk is insisted upon, as the effect and evidence of the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, the opposite error of self-righteous pride is guarded against with equal care.
God is light—What light is in the natural world, that God, the source of even material light, is in the spiritual, the fountain of wisdom, purity, beauty, joy, and glory. As all material life and growth depends on light, so all spiritual life and growth depends on God. As God here, so Christ, in 1 Jo 2:8, is called "the true light."
No darkness at all—strong negation; Greek, "No, not even one speck of darkness"; no ignorance, error, untruthfulness, sin, or death. John heard this from Christ, not only in express words, but in His acted words, namely, His is whole manifestation in the flesh as "the brightness of the Father's glory." Christ Himself was the embodiment of "the message," representing fully in all His sayings, doings, and sufferings, Him who is LIGHT.
Hate is a TOXIC, DEADLY poison, and spreads like fire, while it debilitates, not only those hated, but the hater themselves; it is like an incurable cancer in it's growth! LOVE IS AS A HEALING ELIXIR, and RENEWS the entire being, with POSITIVE, and LASTING results! *GOD* IS GENIUS, and *GOD* IS LOVE, therefore I TRUST HIS COMMAND that I LOVE OVER ALL ELSE!!!
Prejudice, bias, and so forth ARE ALL negative products of hatred, and BY *GOD'S* WILL, NEED to be nipped in the bud, BEFORE it gets way worse, and even more souls are lost to ignorance, and defiance, and to the flesh!!!
LOVE IS OF THE SPIRIT, hate is of the world; let us understand the difference, and choose accordingly! And honestly, it is WAY easier to LOVE, and exist in LOVE than it is to be consumed by hate, for it overtakes all which is good!!!
REV. LWINSOR © 2015
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