Hate the evil and love the good

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I was reading my Bible today, I'm currently in the book of Amos. I prayed to God before my reading for Him to open up to me, to speak to me through His word. I was reading chapter 5 when verse 15a just jumped out at me "Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate"

To HATE evil, takes constant self discipline, because everything that is not of God and not for His glory is unnecessary, evil, and takes away your time from spending it for the good. I must love the good so much that hating evil will be easy and like a second nature for me. For me personally the "evil" here is everything that I spend time on or do that does not bring glory to my Savior.

And then the verse says "establish justice in the gate". The gate can mean many things, like government, or court, or in the house...but for me personally the gate can be my mouth, I need to watch what I say and how I say it. The gate can be my ears, what am I allowing myself to listen to? why am I not listening when I should be? The gate can be my mind, why do I spend most of my day thinking about this or that? Why does my mind jump to conclusions, or dim someone out?



All of my "gates" should have justice established, my whole self should be wholly devoted to my God, Jesus, the one who sacrificed Himself for me.

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