I actually started this post for the crew blog as I had a post due for it, but it wasn’t sitting well as suited for that forum. Ergo, I thought I’d put it up on my blog here for you all! After all, I normally do poetry on Fridays don’t I? I chose the title God Loves God Hates as currently as I’m going through Proverbs these two ideas keep being impressed upon me.
God loves us, he doesn’t want us to have to learn everything the hard way. He’s given us an instruction manual (the bible), and in particular he’s given us short statements that speak truth.

God Loves God Hates
A New Year is around the corner
Waiting
With baited breath.
Will it be a year
the same as the one
Just passed?
Or, will it be
a year of change?
That some pundits predict.
Oh, it’s difficult to
Predict the future
Isn’t it?
But one thing we know
Two things really
Provide hope.
Regardless of
What happens in the world.
God Loves, God hates.
These two things are
Consistent and true
Within that we live.
How does God hates
Provide for hope?
Knowing limits structure provides.
Proverbs says
Six things the Lord Hates,
Seven an abomination.
Structure given
Knowledge gained.
Limits known.
How does God Love
provide for hope?
A son given, a way shown.
For in this way
God showed his love
He gave his only Son.
Born, The Son.
Died, The Son.
Risen, The Son.
Hope fills
the world
with immense light.
Indeed, this is why
A new year is
filled with hope.
Join together
Discover all that God is
Love God, Hate what he hates
Together
As his very own
This New Year be hope!

Scriptural Inspiration
Proverbs 6:16-19
There are six things that the Lord hates,
seven that are an abomination to him:
17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that make haste to run to evil,
19 a false witness who breathes out lies,
and one who sows discord among brothers.
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
I Peter 2:9-10
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Can you see it? Can you see God loves? God loves specifically and generally.
Can you see that God hates? He hates specific things, these things are not good for people. They showcase nothing of benefit to anyone.