Hate Consumes and Distorts

Everyone has hated something or someone. Timothy McVeigh symbolized how hatred can so consume a person that their moral character and values are diminished to the point of rejecting any sense of godly responsibility. Most people were relieved when McVeigh was executed for killing 168 people by bombing the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

There wasn't much press about McVeigh’s mental condition because he so precisely acted on his passion to punish the government for all the injustices he believed were orchestrated against certain groups of citizens. The recipients of the hate that possessed him had no recourse but to be murdered innocently by his bomb. 

Hate distorts the values of those who allow it to permeate their lives. Hate starts with a thought that begins to saturate the body, mind and spirit like yeast. Satan is the epitome of hate and evil, so resist Satan and the impulse to hate. Active faith and trust in Christ Jesus diminish Satan’s power to control you.