Love and Hate

Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their brothers and sisters, are liars; …. — 1 John 4:20.

The author of 1 John doesn’t mince words. Apparently, he felt it necessary to be blunt about the hypocrisy of professing to love God, but finding it in their hearts to hate certain brothers and sisters. Do you know anybody like that? I bet you do.

People from time to time make it difficult to love them. I bet you know a  few of those as well. I like to fudge by saying to myself that the word “hate” is a strong word. I need to reserve it for terrible actions, like war, and Brussel sprouts.

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Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.