Do You Hate What God Hates?

During my season of reset, I found myself asking the Lord some deeply honest questions. One of them required me to pause and when I answered truthfully, my response was a quiet but sobering no.

If I’m being completely transparent, there were areas where I felt indifferent. I didn’t feel strongly one way or another. Yet the Lord gently showed me that indifference toward sin cannot coexist with wholehearted discipleship. To follow Christ fully requires alignment and alignment includes to hate what God hates.

To hate what God hates is not about being harsh, critical, or judgmental. It is about alignment with His heart.

Scripture’s call to hate evil is an invitation into deeper intimacy with God. What God hates is anything that distorts love, destroys identity, enslaves His children, or pulls hearts away from truth. He does not hate people. His Word is clear that we are to love our neighbor as ourselves. Hatred toward people has no place in the Kingdom of God. God hates sin because sin harms the very ones He loves.

Often, we tolerate what God wants to heal. We excuse what He wants to uproot. We normalize what He calls a burden. And without realizing it, we delay our own freedom.

Loving God means allowing Him to refine our desires, convictions, and affections. As intimacy deepens, our hearts begin to ache over what grieves Him. We develop a holy intolerance for anything that keeps us bound not out of fear or condemnation, but out of love.

Hating what God hates doesn’t make us hard; it makes us holy. It sharpens discernment, deepens surrender, and positions us for breakthrough.

This journey is not about perfection, it is about posture. A heart that is willing to pray, “Search me, Lord. If it offends You, I don’t want it.”

Reflective Questions

1. Are there areas in my life where I have grown comfortable with what God is asking me to confront?

2. What attitudes, habits, or thought patterns does the Holy Spirit keep highlighting for healing or surrender?

3. Do I grieve over sin the way God does or have I minimized its impact?

4. In what ways might God be inviting me to trade tolerance for transformation?

5. How would my life look different if I fully aligned my heart with God’s heart in this season?

Take a moment to sit quietly with the Lord and allow Him to speak, not in condemnation, but in love.

Prayer

Father God,

I come before You with an open and surrendered heart. Search me and know me. Reveal anything within me that does not reflect Your nature or align with Your truth. I don’t want to tolerate what You desire to heal, remove, or transform.

Teach me to hate what You hate, not with pride or judgment, but with humility, wisdom, and love. Let my heart be sensitive to what grieves You. Remove every false way, every compromise, and every hidden place that keeps me from deeper intimacy with You.

I choose to cling to what is good, holy, and pure. Align my desires with Yours. Refine my heart. And lead me into greater freedom, obedience, and breakthrough.

In Jesus’ name,

Amen.

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