Today’s Thought “In A Dark Room, With A Lit Candle” G. Ward

1 John 2

 ⁹ The one who says that he is in the Light and yet hates his brother or sister is in the darkness until now.

 

Many will endeavor such a passage with immediate dismissal, insisting they don’t hate anyone; but let’s journey to interrogate its meaning: If one exists in your life (whether personally attached, or merely familiar with) and enters your view and that same one is very opposite of what you perceive ought to exist through any individual – does your soul frown? To detest (i.e., hate) someone means to dislike with intensity (e.g., comparable to hating scotch bonnet peppers or rutabagas).

Biblical mercy is the Almighty’s withholding of the punishment we all deserve and HE dispenses it indiscriminately (Ro.9:15). Is that spiritual view, optional for our adoption as followers of Christ (*Jas.2:13)? Howbeit, that while we were detestable, we were loved by the Holy One, enough so, that HE’D provide Jesus as the Perfect cure, so we’d have connectivity with HIM – while we render other uncooperative souls hopeless?