The God Kind of Love Never Murders

My God! The rate of backstabbing and murder going on amongst believers today is mind boggling. I honestly believe that even “the world” will be shocked at the amount of evil that we do to one another. It is so bad now that we do not trust each other anymore. In my Country, one is immediately on guard when someone you are about to enter a business relationship with mentions that they are also believers. All of this is because we very easily destroy one another while yet claiming to be children of the God who is love. The truth is, much as we may hate to admit this, we don’t love one another. We actually hate each other and I wonder – is this the Spirit of God. Since we barely study the scriptures, we also do not know what love is. Our understanding of love is totally warped; built on the world’s definition of love. 

I John 4: 7 - 8 “Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

1 John 4: 16b “God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them

It is strange to claim to be born again and yet have the capacity to hate anything other than sin. Sadly, sin which we ought to hate is the one thing we love to love. Worse still, we actually hate other believers so much despite God’s admonition. We hate them so much that we do all we can to destroy them especially with our mouth and our quick excuse is that we are angry. How can you claim to love someone whom you tell terribly destructive lies against, behind them, stabbing them always in the back? It is not possible. No reason in the world makes it okay for a believer to destroy another believer. You don’t know it but you are a murderer; the bible says so. Every time you tell those terrible lies, you are attempting to murder a believer and God will be against you.

Proverbs 25: 18 “Telling lies about others is as harmful as hitting them with an ax, wounding them with a sword, or shooting them with a sharp arrow.”

If you claim to be a believer yet hate another believer enough to forge those terrible lies against them, the scriptures unequivocally declares you an unbeliever. Unfortunately you also will barely make progress in life because you are in darkness and as such will not have clear direction for your life. Hatred is blinding and facilitates bad decisions so that you are ruining your own life and giving satan room to enter your life but you don’t see it. It is for the same reason that Cain was made a fugitive for life. Many of us hate our fellow believers so much that like Cain we are killing them though we do it with our mouths and yet we pretend to love them. Loving is more than what we say. 

I John 2: 9 – 11 “if anyone claims, “I am living in the light,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is still living in darkness. Anyone who loves a fellow believer is living in the light and does not cause others to stumble. But anyone who hates a fellow believer is still living and walking in darkness. Such a person does not know the way to go, having been blinded by the darkness.” 

God hates this attitude so much that He responded to the cry of Abel’s blood. The pain of the cry of some believers has come up to God who may be compelled to respond. We have to repent of this behavior and turn around before the judgment of God is poured out even against such “murderers.” Unfortunately, we don’t grasp the meaning of the love that God is. The world’s definition of love has totally warped our understanding of the God kind of love. Though love may be deepened by relationship, the love required of us especially toward other believers, is regardless of relationship. 

1 John 3: 11 – 12NLT “This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because Cain had been doing what was evil, and his brother had been doing what was righteous.”