The Three Hardest Tasks

I remember someone asking in a letter about why people hold on to hate. I think it was with regards to slavery or something along those lines. It’s always the question. I think the reason we cling to our hates so stubbornly is that deep down we sense that once the hate is gone…we will be forced to deal with pain. We don’t like dealing with pain. That is why many will cling stubbornly to hate.

Remember that the three hardest tasks in the world are not physical or intellectual. They are moral: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong.” Only the Spirit of the living God can help a person with these three tasks. Left to our flesh and human nature…we are simply not capable. 1John 4:16 “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”