Cold, Dark, Hate

There is no cold, just an absence of heat.

There is no dark, just the absence of light.

There is no hate, just the absence of love.

Hate is the absence of love, which means the absence of God.

“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” (1 John 4:8)

Without love, we are self-centered and self-serving. Whatever is inconsistent with me, my, I, in a word, “Self”, becomes discarded, disregarded, discounted and dispelled. In a word, it becomes “hated”.

Self is the epitome of sin. It consumes, but never gives.

Man without love, is man with sin.

Jesus made it painfully simple when He boiled it all down to two simple commandments:

“And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:29-31).

Do you have hate? Then you don’t have God. It’s as simple as that.