TESTIMONY ABOUT HATE! UGH!

I remember when my son was about 11 years old and we were driving home from a church service.

We were talking about something and I casually said I hate that...

He promptly said to me, "Mom, hate is a word you can't take back."

Ok, I was rebuked by my son...

Several years later, I was praying in our garden chapel and was crying out to GOD about how I need forgiveness for hating someone.

He said to me, "You do not hate that person."

"Yes, I do, Lord. Forgive me."

"You do not hate that person."

"YES, LORD, I DO HATE THIS PERSON!"

I was certain I was in need of forgiveness.

I was weeping through it all.

Then the Lord spoke to me again.

"Theresa, you do not hate this person. You are very wounded by her."

"You were there when she started her ministry. YOU told your people to support her."

You brought her to your own pulpit and allowed her to speak in your church.

She betrayed you. She turned her back on you.

BUT you did not hate her.

You need to forgive her for the abuse she has shown to you and the way she has spoken about you.

Theresa, you do not hate her.

I was relieved and began to forgive and realized I had been grieving a long time over a lost friendship. It wasn't hate; it was love.

I wept again... Thank you, LORD!

Here are some encouraging Scriptures:

Leviticus 19:17:

"You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him."

1 John 4:20:

"If anyone says, 'I love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen."

Romans 12:9: "Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good."

Dr. Theresa Phillips

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