LOVE AND HATE

John 15:16-18 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, that you love one another. If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.

God is so loving and compassionate that he sent, into this world, his own incarnation, the Son, Jesus Christ, as a result of his great love toward us, and to redeem us from the bondage of Sin, which enslaved us, from the period of the fall of Adam.  There was no other choice for us to redeemed from that bondage unless we come under that love of God.  He redeemed us from that great sin, with the judgment of that sin upon the cross of Calvary, when Jesus bore our sins.  The sin that was inherited by us, had to be removed from us in order that we are redeemed, as a consequence of which a way was provided for us to ask for salvation that is available freely for everyone of us.  when such a great thing was ventured upon the very first thing that happened is that his own people, Jews, rejected Jesus the Messiah, and later the whole world hated him.  The ones that loved him were very few.  Jesus was hated by many in spite of the fact that he did miracles, healed several people suffering from sicknesses, and raised dead to life. The people, who were ready to crucify him were greater in number than the ones, who loved him.  Jesus, who loved us, in spite of being hated by the world, says, in John 13:34-35 "A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another."  There is no wonder if the world hates the children of God, because the world, hated Jesus, the Savior himself. John 15:18 "If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you."  Nevertheless, Jesus assured in John 15:26 "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" 

Thanks to God that we have Holy Spirit indwelling in us to show that love toward others and not hate any one, even if the world hates us, and in  addition we have that spirit of proclaiming the good news about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Our Lord Jesus Christ asked us to love one another by calling us as his friends and by making known to us the love of the Father. How privileged we are that He not only chose us to work for HIM but also asks us not to worry because someone has hated or is still hating us.  The world hated and insulted the creator himself. We are his own and le us  love one another and work for HIM.