I Hate You

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

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My cancer story and how it affected my health and my lifting career is now up on Train insane or remain the same by trainer Justin Transgrud… you can find the link here in my podcast notes… it is 2 hours… hope you give it a listen. 

 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/train-insane-or-remain-the-same-podcast/id1646822357?i=1000584430026

 

Just yesterday I had a couple who had been coming to my church the last 4 weeks reach out to me stating they wanted to meet with me one on one to ask me some questions. Well we started out with some fun banter, and a few social question and answer and then they went into their background One was Lutheran, one was Catholic, they had been married for 10 years and had been high school sweethearts. They were both looking for a church they could attend together and enjoy… but they had some questions to ask me before they become members. they loved the church, the music, they loved my preaching but needed clarification on some topics. So what where the topics… Abortion, Homosexuality, infant baptism and if I actually thought scripture was Gods holy word and was inherent.

So I told them what the bible said on each of these topics and with each answer they just stared, quietly… I pretty much figured they stumbled into this UMC thinking we were still UMC and we are not and now I burst their bubble with biblical answers… I even wondered if they had kids that were gay or cats… or whatever… but as it turns out when I was finished the woman sighed a sigh of relief and said that is soooo good to hear. We left our other churches because they don’t agree with scripture.

 

In todays world having a biblical opinion is not popular and in fact its not even popular with Christians. But I have learned something over the years…

 

When you truly want Jesus and all he has for you- when the hunger is so great that you beg God giving him permission to do whatever it takes to make you more like Jesus.. when that’s your pulse then you not only no longer have time for watered down scripture and perverted theology but it actually causes your soul and spirit to wretch - almost as if your soul is going to throw up. You become so hungry for God that your heart mind and soul demand the pure unadulterated word of God free from mans carnal consciousness and opinions. 

 

We ended last weeks podcast with the verse in Galatians 1:17 (I believe) am I still trying to please man or am I trying to please God. You know It does not bother me when non Christians don’t believe what I believe. They are not supposed to… but when professing Christians speak the opposite of scripture… then I must call them out… Look

First they don’t understand you, then they don’t like you, but over time they respect you, and finally they want to be like you! (though they may never tell you) Not only is this true in the world of Christianity, but this is many times the road a person travels when they live truly according to Gods vision for their life.

ITS NUTS RIGHT? You choose Christ and his so called followers choose to hate you. 

 

Have you ever heard of the Hate poem by Julie Sheehan?

I will read just a snippet of it.

The blue-green jewel of sock lint I’m digging

      from under my third toenail, left foot, hates you.

The history of this keychain hates you.

My sigh in the background as you explain relational databases

      hates you.

The goldfish of my genius hates you.

My aorta hates you. Also my ancestors.

 

A closed window is both a closed window and an obvious

      symbol of how I hate you.

 

As one literary critic explains regarding this poem…

It isn’t until the end of the poem when we grasp the fact that this guy that she hates is her significant other. Then we realize that her “hatred” for her boyfriend or husband may be confused for love or has replaced love temporarily. “Hate Poem” is a deep and highly clever work of art that demonstrates the similarities between both the intense emotions of love and hate.

 

Understand in todays world more than ever… if someone hates you, it means they actually in a twisted way love you, they love that you stand for truth in the face of a world gone looney tunes… but hey express it as hate because they don’t have the backbone to stand up to others they way you do.

So enjoy the hate… your on to something great!