There is a very fine, thin line between love and hate; light and darkness- just look at the two evens, they look exactly alike. The first even is as it begins to dawn toward the day, or morning, it’s night but yet light. The even is what God put in place at creation to separate the light from the darkness. The second even is at the setting of the sun, there is dusk, or night but it’s still light out—the day is between the two evens.
We hate the sin, love the sinner unto strict obedience to God loving Him. Loving the sinner is being a godly influence, being so heavenly minded, that we are of good. God keeps us in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Him because we trust in Him. Others become changed by beholding Christ in us; or, they loathe us because of this. We can do nothing without God, including living by faith in strict obedience to Him, having Christ faith, having His love keeping and observing His law of love.
Either others are changed by beholding us; or we are changed because we took our focus off God, and started beholding man instead. If we know someone to be a certain way, they are choosing to live contrary to God—that is their choice, leave them to it; yet, being ever present interceding for them to God in prayer. We give God consent to intervene and do what He must do that they might be saved (Delivered from sin). We ask God to forgive them each their sins. We in God, the righteous, the just—this is in our job description.
We must guard well the entrances into the soul, life. Be mindful of, careful, beware of the enemy who sets up snares to entrap us. You may be reading this and realize you are or have been being used by Satan—there is Hope. Christ has already paid the price. Go to Him, acknowledge confessing and repenting, turning way from, forsaking sin. We must examine ourselves by the Word of God. We must seek, ask, knock for the Holy Spirit who God puts in us to do the changing, the heart surgery—a new mind filled with Christ love, His character.
Be mindful, aware of who you associate with. Let us take the counsel of the counselors of God, apply in our daily lives that we be not partakes of sin through who we associate with: By beholding became changed. Be aware, beware of where we set our feet, in the conversations we involve ourselves, to not be idle, nor speaking idle words.
“I have not sat with vain persons, Neither will I go in with dissemblers. I have hated the congregation of evil doers; And will not sit with the wicked.”
Psalm 26:4, 5 KJV
“And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.”
2 Thessalonians 3:14 KJV (Read and study verses before and after to apply fully in understanding having wisdom of God, and apply in reading and studying all holy Scripture, not just this one)
“I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.”
1 Corinthians 5:9-13 KJV
“He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: Therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.”
Proverbs 20:19 KJV
“The rich and poor meet together: The LORD is the maker of them all. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: But the simple pass on, and are punished. Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: He that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; Yea, strife and reproach shall cease. The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein. He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, And he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. Make no friendship with an angry man; And with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, And get a snare to thy soul. Be not thou one of them that strike hands, Or of them that are sureties for debts.”
Proverbs 22:2-3, 5, 10, 14, 16, 24-26 KJV
“When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: For they are deceitful meat. Labour not to be rich: Cease from thine own wisdom. Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee. The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words. Speak not in the ears of a fool: For he will despise the wisdom of thy words. Be not among winebibbers; Among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: And drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. For a whore is a deep ditch; And a strange woman is a narrow pit. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, And increaseth the transgressors among men. Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it giveth his colour in the cup, When it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, And thine heart shall utter perverse things. Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.”
Proverbs 23:1-4, 6-9, 20-21, 27-35 KJV (Read onto Proverbs 24-26;
“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
James 4:17 KJV
There are so many more instructions in righteousness giving us clear, firm counsel, wisdom, what to not do that we sin not; what to do that we stay in the safety of the Lord God Almighty.
Lord God deliver us in Yeshuah’s name.