Hating God

Pro 8:36 …. all they that hate me love death.


Pro 5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Pro 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof


Eze 33:11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?


Hate.


We see so much hate in our world, so much that it's downright sickening to read of it day in and day out. People might not agree, believing that their actions aren't of hate, but those actions speak loudly of hate even if the words don't.


People hating God is nothing new. Throughout the Bible there are people that hate God and truthfully, all those who hate God truly do love death. Without a love for God there is no true life. What we are living now is no where near the life intended for us.


We do so hate instruction though, don't we? We despise reproof and yet it is instruction and reproof which are the very things that reveal our need of God. And our pride often gets in the way of admitting any need we might have. We commit wicked acts, sinfilled acts because of our pride, because of our self love, our self absorption, our need to be masters of our own limited existence. Truly we cannot change so much about us that we often go overboard trying to control and change the things we can. Trying to feel superior we choose paths that don't always lead us to God. When we go astray we are reproved, we're chastised, we're given instruction and we need to listen, to follow, to turn from our evil ways- and all ways that aren't God's are evil, though so many would have people believe otherwise. We live in a world of compromises and it is no wonder at all whatsoever that so few will be truly God's when our Savior returns.


Joh 15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
Joh 15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
Joh 15:23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
Joh 15:24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Joh 15:25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.


Hating God without a cause.


Psa 69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.


What cause do people have for hating those that love them? Does that love make them aware of their own failings and they'd rather lash out against that love than face the realization they are not perfect, they are not all that they wish they could be? You see it all the time- people giving love to others only to be rewarded with hatred. Kindness rewarded with wickedness. People hate God maybe because His existence holds them up to a higher standard which they can never achieve and rather than admit their dependence upon God they want to rebel against Him instead. Admitting that you cannot save yourself, admitting that you did not will yourself into existence- or that mankind did not do that at some point, admitting that we are creatures isn't something people want to do. Becoming a servant is NOT something people automatically aspire to. Finding love in serving is not something typical but rather atypical. Forever the people serving wish to be in a place where they can instead be served, and this is part of the wickedness of selfishness, of self-love.


Yes, people hate God and His Son without cause. God and His Son are of a love we can only hope and pray one day to achieve through their mercy and sacrifice, their righteousness- not ours. As long as we refuse to submit to love, as love as we refuse to admit our dependence, our actions will continue to be of those who are selfish, evil, and wicked- even if we never become wicked and evil in the way mankind today gives those labels. As long as we refuse to submit and continue to despise instruction and being reproved, we are lending our voices to the many of millions who hate God without cause.


By the grace of our Savior may we NOT be found among those who hate God! May we accept instruction and being reproved. May we seek to submit to our Creator, to our Redeemer for it is only in full submission to love- the love that comes from God, the love that IS God that we can love and live eternally- not loving death as those who hate God do.


In His name, in Him always!!!


Amen.