READ: 2 Samuel 13: 10-32
There are events in life that will cause you great displeasure. Indeed, these events may be so tumultuous that they may even generate hatred in you. Hate is a very strong emotion. Hatred comes before murder. When people are offended, you get the feeling that they would even like to kill you.
There will be offences that will produce resentment and hatred. What sort of experiences could generate hatred and resentment in a happy person like you? You are so full of passion, love and zeal today. What could hurt you so badly that you will develop such a strong dislike for someone?
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. :- Proverbs 10:12
I have had people who were so happy with me and ascribed all the good things in their lives to the fact that they knew me and were ministered to by me. When these same people were hurt, I heard them say they wished they had never met me in this world. I have also had people who have called me the most anointed person they knew and then after they were hurt, they called me satan. Obviously, these people experienced something so terrible that it completely changed their perspective of me.
One day, I had a series of experiences that built up in me until I developed resentment and hatred for the offenders. I noticed the new feeling of resentment and hatred welling up in me. This was indeed a new experience. Up till then, I had never found it difficult to forgive or overcome bad experiences.
Indeed, that bad experience was changing me and changing my attitude completely. It was something I noticed because it was a completely new feeling I had not experienced before. I immediately had to check myself and stop myself from continuing to feel that way.
Bishop Dag Heward-Mills