What Happens To You When You Hate?
Posted by Kenny Vaughan on 22nd Jul 2022
What Happens to You When You Hate?
A fruitful person is fruitful because they are the 7 things love is: patient, kind, truthful, trusting, protecting, hopeful and persevering.
But in life, people come along and hurt us. They can take your fruit but they can’t touch your root.
In other words, they can hurt you but they can’t change who you are.
If you love through the hurt, keep protecting, keep trusting and hold on to the 7 things love is: that loving restores everything that was taken from you.
The problem is that we decide we are going to put ourselves first after we have been hurt and we become the 8 things love is not: angry, rude, envious, prideful, boastful, selfish, unforgiving, and delighting in evil.
Now, it is no longer what someone did to us. This is what we are doing to ourselves. It’s our own decision. When we get here, unfortunately, we think it is everyone else’s fault.
Hate destroys the haters.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Trust God’s Word no matter what.
Keep your eyes on the horizon.
This is all in my book, “The Right Fight: How To Live a Loving Life.”I spent seven years writing it. It will help you set your life on a path of fruitfulness and show you how to live a loving and courageous life instead of a life driven by fear. Order the book on Amazon and at shieldsofstrength.com .
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