Love and Hate.

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Love is meant to be a two way street.

The discriminatory love of God.

 

The moment that you believe that Scripture teaches that God loved Jacob but he hated Esau you must also believe the fact that discrimination exists.

 

You might have immediately asked: “How can it be?”

That is another matter, but the fact is that discrimination exists.

It exists as consequence of the fall.

 

The beauty of it all is that God did not create either evil nor sin nor discrimination. 

The rebellious angels preferred independence from God by not accepting God’s will for their existence. In the same way rebellious men preferred independence from God by following the followers of the Evil one. Creation itself was the evidence of the love of God who loves first. 

 

Since existence does not start with us, we are in this world to follow our preferences. “Preference” is not a lifeless desire, but a leader, a person, “A PERSON OF INFLUENCE.” A mentor. An adviser. An angel of light. A deceiver. 

 

When everything is said and done all we leave behind is our influence.

 

Esau was tall, dark and handsome with hair on his chest, the first-born son of a wealthy father and a sure heir to a considerable fortune. Esau was a dream Son-in-Law of any caring mother for her daughter. Esau must have been a regular quarterback of the Football team and a prom king and a mighty hunter.

 

Jacob was not so tall, dark or handsome. Jacob did not have hair on his chest. Jacob was probably a “cry baby,” a regular mama’s boy.

 

Apart from the physical differences of these two men there was a greater difference between Esau and Jacob.

Esau as first born was sure heir to the wealth of his father. He did not need God.

Jacob, as second born without a certain future depended on God and sought in every way for blessings from God and never had enough of God.

 

We can safely conclude that God loves those who need him and hates those who do not need him and instead boast in their status and independence.

Esau trusted in himself while Jacob trusted God for his very next breath.

 

The rejects of the Human Race are not rejected because God created them in order to reject them but because like the rebellious angels who themselves rejected by choice and preference and chose whom to follow. In other words, “They rejected him who first loved them enough to create them.”

 

If love and obedience was the umbilical cord that joins man with God, by disobedience a man severs the cord that joins him to God. So, no longer is God obliged to love those who rejected him by disobedience.

 

There are good Angels and there are bad angels.

There are obedient angels and there are disobedient angels.

 

Jesus said: The reason why my father loves me is because I obey his commandments. The rebellious angels do not love nor obey God. Jesus loves God.  

Obedience separates as light is separated from darkness.

God preferred the obedient and rejected the disobedient.

God loved Jacob but hated Esau.

 

Not every father loves his children in the same way.

You might hate to accept this fact but you must admit that there are two kinds of love. The one-way love does not change and is unconditional and there is the two-way street kind of love that is the “Corresponded love.”

No one in his right mind can deny corresponded love because it is beautiful, it is desirable, it is enjoyable, and it is how it was meant to be.

 

In my personal experience, I have literally seen parents getting old fast in front of my eyes as the result of the sadness and of the lack of love from their children.

 

In the same way I have seen parents blossoming back to life when their children in repentance come back home as in the case of the prodigal son.

 

Again, Jesus said, the reason why my father loves me is because I obey his commandments. Love and obedience are the two faces of the same coin.

 

Apart from being self-serving, the healthy love among the Godhead is proper and right. For God so loved the Son and the Son so loved the father as to himself and God so loved the world. It should be the same among humans to love our father and our children as to themselves, because we are created in the image of God.

 

Love was meant to be a two-way street. When the traffic is in one direction only, the well-deserved discrimination is exercised as the right of a sovereign God who is the Lord as is the potter is lord over the clay.

 

Gerry Gutierrez. 

 

PS. Cold Days of Tacoma ahead.