Bible Verse of the Day Monday June 27th, 2022

 Psalm 97:10 Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Hate is an audacious and forceful word, and we are told throughout scripture not to harbor hate in our hearts for anyone. However, this verse does not tell us to hate people but to hate evil. Satan is the cause and foundation of evil anywhere it raises its ugly head. On the surface, this seems like a simple command to carry out; however, it could very well be the most misunderstood of all of God’s directives. As Christians, we would hope and pray that we would find ourselves loving people, but at certain junctures, we can be too lovey. There is a fine distinct line between loving God and the things He loves and accepting the things He hates as part of our loving nature. There is also a clear distinction between being angry at sin and hating sin. The natural person can be angry at their sin because of the desperate situation it has caused to transpire in their lives. However, they may not hate the sin because they will likely go back to it, hoping for a better outcome next time.

We harbor a tolerance and forbearance towards the evil that God hates in the name of political correctness. In our hearts, we truly want to love God, but we do not want others to see us as living outside of what the world considers normal. Satan has had a massive amount of experience in leading someone into his snares of evil, and when we think that his subtle traps can’t fool us, we fall the hardest. The love that we have in our hearts, through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God, should lead us to pray for those caught in Satan’s tentacles.

Sometimes when evil occurs to someone close to us, we might want to expand the hate we should have for the sin into anger and try to rescue our loved one. We are reminded in this Psalm that it is not our place to fix the corruption in this world; God does that; only God is the guardian and defender of his people. We are to show our love for God and people by hating all sin, not just the sin that we feel has infringed on our wellbeing or that of someone close to us. God has rescued and redeemed us from evil through the substitutionary work of Christ Jesus on the Cross of Calvary.

Therefore, we should have the courage to care about and pray for those trapped by Satan’s evil schemes.

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