We were all wonderfully made by the Lord. Look around you and you realize he loves diversity and things that are unique.
Psalm 139:13-14 – 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
That’s one of the worst parts about racism. Hate because someone is of a different ethnic group. Not because they do things that are wrong. They’re not doing things that are just flat out evil. People will hate others just because they are of a different heritage or skin color.
That definitely comes from sin and the fall. No man should ever even dislike someone before they even meet them. This body is a shell and is only just a holding tank of our spirit and soul.
It is important that we have love in our lives. God is love. When one hates the love of the Father can’t shine through that kind of a person. Hate ususally comes from your own bitterness of what you don’t care for and usually it’s about your own feelings.
Are there things we should hate? There is lots of things in the bible it says God hates. They all pertain to sin and evil.
Tolerance is being taught widely right now. The problem with tolerance is that much of it is against the teachings of the Lord. God is the one who says what’s right and what’s wrong. I believe we are to Love others around us, but at the same time hate evil.
Romans 12:9 – 9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
Condoning everything people do is not of God, that’s of this world. God has absolutes and rules.
The racism card gets played too much in the political sense. Racism is ugly, but the reason that it truly is, is because God made us all in his image as humans. He loves the uniqueness of all his creations. We are all brothers and sisters who are in the Lord and we can never forget that.
The only things we should hate, is what God hates and that is evil and those things that are detestable to Him.
Proverbs 8:13 – 13 To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.