We don’t want it and we keep away from it for whatever reason that turns us away from it.
If we dislike or even feel like we hate some food then we will avoid that food. A vegan will hate the thought of eating meat and won’t go anywhere near it. A pacifist will avoid war and violence because they are against war and violence. A person who has seen pain and suffering from drug abuse, drunk driving, or texting while driving will avoid it with a deep sense of dislike.
If there is a man (or women) down the road that you hate (or feel a deep disliking for) then you will always avoid him (or her). If there is a man (or women) down the road that you love then you will try to get in their path and hope that he (or she) will like you. The difference between loving a person and hating a person is obvious.
If we hate someone we want to reject them, we see that person and instantly we look for a way to avoid he or she. If we love a person our mind and body act as one to draw us closer to that person. We may feel physically turned on thinking of that person and seeing that person. Our heart may flutter. We may be nervous, have sweaty hands etc. And we may think of that person day and night because their feeling lives within the very center of our being, in our spiritual heart.
The feeling of hate is how we are to feel about sins. We should hate them enough to avoid them. We should want to not go near them.
A Prime Minister once took many millions of dollars off a crippled children group. To many of us that is a very mean thing to do. The Prime Minister then went on to other things and didn’t need to think of the poor suffering children who didn’t have that money to help them in their daily lives. But if the Prime Minister was taken back and made to live with those children for a year seeing the damage that she has created and the pain and suffering that had come from her deed then there is a great chance she could have seen the error of her ways and hated that past choice. She would never make a choice like that again.
If we have done bad things in the past and now we hate what we did (but not hate ourself because we were lost at that time – we are not lost now because we know that what we did was wrong) then we will never repeat it again.
Hating something bad or evil is a good thing because it repels us away from it and we will never make it a part of our life. This is why it is important to know what good and evil are and then love one and hate the other – with that attitude we will have a much better life. A life that God approves of.
All the best from James M Sandbrook.
24th of November, 2013.
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