March 27th, 2024: Thoughts on Hatred

Violence mirrors our profound brokenness, manifesting physically when anger drives us to harm others, emotionally when we inflict misery upon someone, mentally when we manipulate, and spiritually when we delude ourselves into playing God in people's lives.

Rooted in histories of hatred and deceit, violence often fuels the conflicts plaguing our world today, where shared pasts dissolve into fervent demands for annihilation. When history becomes a tool for revenge and cultural heritage a pedestal for superiority, we ignore the lessons of the past and succumb to destruction. We have no future.

Hatred, all-consuming, blinds us to God's paths of forgiveness, trapping us in cycles of self-destructive animosity that render us emotionally volatile and spiritually numb—antithetical to the life God intends for us.

"Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses." - Proverbs 10:12

"Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice." - Ephesians t4:31