FAITH CAPSULE: With God’s calling over your life as Christ-like, avoid hatred.
John 4:1-45
Are you having hatred for some?
Do you have hatred focused on a particular one?
Proverbs 10:18 identifies the character of one with hatred in the depth of heart, “Whoever hides hatred has lying lips…”
Are you a liar not knowing that you have hatred in your heart?
Are you a liar that answers as a believer of the word of God?
Do not hide hatred, do not be a liar to avoid sin that sets man away from the presence of God in the journey of life.
Jesus Christ, the Truth could not hide hatred or told lies in every step of His ministry.
As a Christ-like, everything is in place for you, to work in your favor if you will replace yourself as a Christ-like.
Do away with hatred, live life as a Christ-like.
It was truthfulness of Jesus, evidence of no hatred, that made Him went through Samaria at His time of returning from Judea to Galilee.
Going through Samaria is often forbidden by the Jew because of hatred for the Samarians. Jesus came in love and could not walk outside of love.
Are you a Christ-like with no hatred rooted in your heart?
Is hatred in the heart that is distracting your calling by God?
It was in the hate polluted route that Jesus was able to plant one of the most effective testimonies of salvation. Jesus bypassed hatred to allow the revelation of living water to come to life and become more distinct in the life of the people of Samaria.
In this route of hatred, He encountered a Samaritan woman and He asked for water to drink. Jesus introduced the living water to the Samaritan woman because hatred did not influence Jesus. Jesus knew quite well that she does not have what it takes to draw living water for Him to drink. Without hidden hatred, Jesus made it known to the Samaria woman, “…Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:13-14)
The journey of Jesus demonstrated no hatred but ministered salvation to the Samaritan woman that received the message of salvation with joy.
Hatred is rooted in pride but having pride is like engaging a personal ride to self-destruction. Pride is a sin before God, to derail one from God’s calling.
Are you on the right track of your calling?
With God’s calling over your life as Christ-like, avoid hatred, do not be trapped by hatred.
Deny self; deny untruthfulness and do not allow hatred to come your way of calling to serve as a Christ-like.
Jesus could not be derailed by hatred, and you as a Christ-like, you shall not become a victim, not be derailed from calling’s God by hatred.
Prayer for today: Ask before God for you not to become a victim of hatred.