"Ponder Your Role" -3

"Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate." (Psalms 34:21) I need to be completely honest, and say that I did not want to do this the third time; but I saw the number of this verse was twenty one and felt that it was not yet complete. Actually, I felt the Lord tugging on my heart to share one more little tidbit of information about the beast; the beast being something that rises up out of a heart that gives into pride and envy. When the writer says, "Evil shall slay the wicked", it pertains to something that happens within a persons own heart; without getting to involved, let's just say that "Evil is what evil does"; which is another way of saying, If you hold onto wickedness within your heart, it's going to kill you! We are called unto to righteousness, we that have been called out of the darkness; and righteousness does not dwell within evil, plain and simple. The second part of this verse is actually a continuation of the first statement, but is amplified to express the reason; in other words, the reason that "Evil shall slay the wicked", is because "they that hate the righteous shall be desolate". Hate, for those that may not know, is the opposite of love; and it really comes down to whether your a lover or a hater, because you really can't be both! I know what your thinking: Why not? Yes, I know, many of us claim to have love-hate relationships, but what does that even actually mean? Do we love someone for what they provide for us, but hate the way that they make us feel? Or maybe we love that they make us feel so wanted, but they always keep us wanting? Either way, the hate side of what we feel is something that comes from within our own hearts, and it is predicated upon our own expectations for what we expect out of any given relationship. It really doesn't matter whether we are talking about a husband and wife, a friend and a friend, or a servant and a master; they all have the same needs which seem to need to be met, and they all are subject to the same laws of love...Someone needs to be the one to love first...
"We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification. For even Christ pleased not Himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached fell on Me. For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: that ye may with one mind and mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." (Romans 15:1-6)