Where does hatred come from? Real wrathful hate. Hate that endures, that goes on and on, that
will not listen to any explanation or appeasement or comments to help calm it
down.
You know. It is obvious. Pure out and out hatred for
others comes from the devil himself. A
true manifestation of evil.
We are living in a culture now
where there are large numbers living in blind, stupefying hate, hate that
cannot be rationally explained. Some of
those people were evident Saturday after the inauguration in their inane rants
or speeches. Some of these are obvious
even occasionally in the news media, when as you watch suddenly vitriol spills
out and untruths and challenges and absurdities suddenly come pouring forth.
This hatred has been spewing up
on airlines lately, when suddenly a passenger will begin outrageously vocally
attacking some other passenger just sitting there. It happened just a few days ago, and
thankfully the plane was still on the ground and the crew had the woman
removed. If you read the article or saw
any of the video, you realize her remarks and behavior were straight from the
evil one – insane, evil, full of hate, totally irrational and inconsiderate of
others completely. Not too long ago on a
flight from New York City to Washington DC a passenger verbally berated the
daughter of the new president who was traveling with her children. The whole flight. The crew did not evidently stop this. Probably they did not know what to do. It is to the shame of the surrounding
passengers they did not stop this. Maybe
the old policy of air marshals must be brought back to all flights.
Those people involved in violent
protests lately, burning cars, behaving violently – those are anarchists. That is the word. They are not peaceful demonstrators. Those people are a great danger to the
country and to you and me.
Unbelievers? Yes. Or at the least, highly deceived people. The devil has been very active with this
group.
Hate.
No matter how awful and insane
the behavior of these hateful people, no civilized person and certainly no
believer in Jesus Christ can allow such behavior and words to be accepted. That is the problem of weak government
responses to such behavior, and that is the problem with the news media which
often comes out in support of such horrible action.
I have no great solution to this,
other than the obvious. Be alert
whenever you encounter such people. They
may have no limits to what they might do.
Keep your eyes on Jesus, listen to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and
pray often as Paul urges in Ephesians 6.
Be wise and protect yourselves.
This culture of hate may be here until the Lord comes to get us.
Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!
(February
2017)
Copyright © 2017 by John
Newlin
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