A man overheard someone speaking in an ill manner against his favorite football team. He turned to the malefic foe and said, “Don't be hatin'”. In another venue while a woman was watching her favorite “house wives” television show, an advertisement interrupted with the message, “Erase the hate.” On a popular young person's award show, the message to the crowd was, “Don't hate. Participate.” It seems that everywhere there are challenges to the idea of hating, and anyone who hates anything is deemed one who is out of touch with the modern way, removed from reality, and a threat to society itself. But, are there things in life that should be hated? Are there places where each person should question the question, “Don't be hatin'?”
Who enjoys the fact that children every year come into contact with cancer? Who likes that mothers and innocent relatives receive the report, “You have breast cancer?” Who loves being told that their son or daughter has just been arrested, killed or has been in a terrible accident? Is there really someone out there that doesn't hate that children and women are beat by fathers and boyfriends? If one thinks about it long enough, there are things to hate.
The words of an old manuscript come to mind,
“These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.”
Maybe the next time the idea of never hating at all comes up someone should talk to the writer of these words, and should they feel so inclined, try telling the “LORD” what to do.
Until tomorrow...Why Say More?
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