"Love/Hate, War/Peace"

November 17, 2015

“Love/Hate, War/Peace”

Blessings folk!

There is an appointed time for everything under the heavens.

Had to remind myself of that yesterday whilst visiting with a friend that is on the threshold of glory…just learned that he is in glory now…

Ecc 3:8
A time to love and a time to hate;
A time for war and a time for peace.


The Hebrew word for “hate” refers to hate in the sense that we understand it.
It also carries the idea of “having an enemy”.

There will be times when there will be those who consider themselves to be our enemies.

We are not to be surprised by such.

Jesus told us that the world will hate us.

We are called to that wondrous mystery of loving all, yet hating sin, deeds, etc.

Loving all does not mean that we walk through life with a “pie-in-the-sky” attitude.
No.
We know we have enemies.
Enemies must be addressed.

There is a time to love…a time to hate.
There is a time for war…a time for peace.

War against enemies…not tactic.

I dare say that one of our greatest enemies are those who have lead us into a “war” against a tactic.

Paul warned of such.
In Acts 20 he tells the elders from Ephesus to be ready, to beware. There would be those who would arise from without the Body and from within the Body who would cause harm.

Such are to be resisted.