"Truth is the mother of all hatred"

The ancient Latin poet Decimus Magnus Ausonius (A.D. 310-395) wrote, “Truth is the mother of all hatred.” Think about it. What gets you in more trouble today than anything you can do other than breaking the law? What you say; and if it happens to be true, or violates political correctness, or offends people’s religious sensibilities, what are you? You are hated!

Christians will be hated because of their stand for the truth. Matthew 10:22 says, ““And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.” He said further in John 15:18, “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.” John 17:14 adds, “I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.”

Every person who wants to be accepted by God has to love the truth, even if it means they will be hated. Love and truth cannot be separated. The apostle John demonstrates this in his letters. He wrote in 2 John 1, “The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth.” The third verse of the same letter says, “Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.” Finally, the first verse of the third letter reads, “The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.” If you are hated, first make sure that you are hated because you stubbornly adhere to the truth, and secondly, rejoice that you have done the will of God!

Kyle Campbell