Love what God Loves. Hate what He Hates. Do what He says. Walk in His Ways.

Love is not love outside of Love Himself. God is love. (1 John 4:8)

We can try as we might to rewrite these truths to better fit our culture, but truth is truth. God is God, and He is love.

Love and Truth do not exist without Him. They exist because of Him.

He has commanded us to love from the beginning. It is not a new concept. There are no new rules to follow.

He hasn’t changed His standard. He hasn’t edited His Word to make it more culturally relevant.

Church, we must stop allowing the world to tell us how to love. We must stop allowing the lies of the world to replace the truth of God’s Word.

It’s dangerous. It’s deceptive. God will have no part in it, and He warns us against it.

We have to stop adding to, twisting, and manipulating God’s Word to fit our world. That’s not the way it works. Just look around and see for yourself. It is not working well at all.

God is God. We are not. Let’s love what He loves. Let’s hate what He hates. Let’s do what He says. Let’s walk in His ways as we walk in Truth — (the whole truth) His Holy Truth — (and nothing but the truth) the only Truth worth trusting. Let’s turn from sin back to Him.

“I am writing to remind you, dear friends, that we should love one another. This is not a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning. Love means doing what God has commanded us, and he has commanded us to love one another, just as you heard from the beginning.” ~ 2 John‬ ‭1:5-6‬

These two verses are smack dab in the middle of the thirteen verses that make up the book of 2 John — holding it all together, and there’s a reason that one line is repeated... “from the beginning.”

Love and Truth have forever been defined by Him. They have not, will not, and cannot change no matter what the world throws our way. His Word defines what the world defiles.

Love what God loves.

Hate what He hates.

Do what He says.

Walk in His ways.