Hate: Proverbs Project Continues

When is hate a good thing?  My quick response, and probably yours as well, is “never!”  Of course it’s OK to hate spiders (unless your name is Charlotte), rats, and other things that annoy us.  Don’t you just hate getting a sunburn on the first day of your vacation in Hawaii?  I personally hate grilled onions on my hamburgers.  What do you hate?  That’s the problem we run into with hate.  Things that annoy us long enough we begin to have a hate relationship with, especially when a person gets thrown into the mix once in a while.  Then there is the issue of evil and sin.  Do we hate these things?  Proverbs 8:13 says, “To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.”  Is it possible that when we see these things reflected in our own lives we have become comfortable with them?  May we look into our lives and when evil behavior, pride, arrogance, and perverse speech are revealed, let us hate them enough to end our relationship with them altogether.