It’s within human nature to hate what causes suffering and pain. Hatred is powerful because of the social and spiritual stigma it fosters. Hatred does more damage to the one harboring it than to those to whom it is directed.
This truth, unfortunately, does little to convince the one nursing hatred to let it go and permit God to do his work. Hatred can cause a marriage to fail and drive a wedge between parents and children during and after divorce proceedings. Parents often use children to punish the ex-spouse.
Fractured and broken parents should never use their children as conveyers of punishment. 1 John 2:11 tells us if we permit hatred to take possession of us, we live in darkness, which implies the blessings of God will be absent from us, for God is light. In God there can be no darkness.
Hatred conveys darkness and destruction, but forgiveness imparts healing and the blessing of God’s presence.
Stop
being bitter and angry and mad at others. Don’t yell at one another or curse each
other or ever be rude. Instead, be kind and merciful, and forgive others, just
as God forgave you because of Christ Jesus.
~Ephesians
4:31-32 Contemporary English Version
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