“Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.” — Romans 12:9 NKJV
One incredible characteristic of God’s love is its sincerity. Love is sincere, but it requires work to ensure its expression is without hypocrisy. In other words, you don’t say one thing and do another.
In Romans 12:9, Apostle Paul writes that we must let God’s love be without hypocrisy. Then, he continues to say, “abhor what’s evil. Cling to what is good.” That means we must love everybody without hypocrisy. But we must also hate evil, not evildoers. So when someone we love does something wrong, our love for the person should hate the action but correct the person.
A person’s identity isn’t in what he does but in who God says he is. Friend, separate the wrongs of people from them. When people do something bad against you, attack the behaviour rather than the person. If you don’t do this, you’ll be frustrated with the person without solving the offence.
A person’s identity isn’t in what he does but in who God says he is.
God’s love has no loopholes. However, it gives no room for evil to be tabernacled in the heart. Nobody pays rent to you for keeping their offences in your heart. Love Jesus by obeying His teaching. And you’ll realize that the very people most of us complain of having offended us are hurting people who need our love to experience inner healing. Hate evil, not evildoers. Cling to what’s good.
You’re a blessing.
Devotional Code: KGD // 2022 – 079
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