Greetings Dear Reader,
As I have made
clear in this series of posts, there are no humans that I hate. There is nothing that allows me to hate any
human. I may get mad at you. I might even try to dislike you. The difficulty with that is that if I am
working a not hating and at actively loving, there is nothing to feed dislike.
There are things that
the Father hates. They are all attitudes
and actions that detract from his desire to love others without measure. The Father insists that we love others through
justice, kindness, generosity, mercy, and humility. All that we do that neglects love in the
guise of these things are hated by the Father.
If we cannot trace our actions back to love for the Father, then we must
question those actions.
Further, if we find
basing our actions in any way on violence, anger, and pride, we are acting in
ways God hates. We can feel angry about
injustice. We are required to work out
that anger in love and grace. People have
walked away from following Christ because of this requirement. There are those who would rather reject Jesus
than face that they are living in anger and hatred.
Further still,
there are those who justify their anger and hatred in the name of God. They use the name of Jesus to carry their
hatred and rejection of others. This is
the violation of the command never to take the name of God in vanity. This how we make following Christ not
following but idolatry.
The reason that I
must love always and reject all that is unloving is to be able to love the
Father properly. The purpose of becoming
unoffendable is so that I can love properly.
In the current rage sweeping our nation, I must be angered by the
injustice and deal with it lovingly. I
am required to hate the violence committed by anyone and love the person committing
that violence. The only way to follow
Christ in this time is to love everyone.
So, Dear Reader, I ask you to continue to travel with me.
We must work out a way to show love to everyone without compromising
justice, kindness, mercy, and humility. We
have a long way to go. We must love each
other to get there well. As always, your
thoughts on this are precious to me.
Wishing you joy in
the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus
said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of
Christ’s rule of the universe is like a homeowner. He liberally hands out new
and old things from his great treasure store.”
(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Every human
story is part of the great story that leads to the Father getting everything
back to Good.
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Thorn:
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