Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;
you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness.
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you
with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
Psalm 45:6-7 ESV
If we are tempted, from a misguided sense of political correctness or fear of offending, to replace hated with another word, for instance, rejected, because we think that to hate at all is somehow improper in a Christian, then we should probably think again, or we will risk finding ourselves guilty of a much higher order of incorrectness or offense than we imagined.
Charles Spurgeon, in his comments on Psalm 45:6-7, reminds us that the nature of choice demands complementary rejection(s). Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other,or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. ” Matthew 6:24 ESV. When a King refuses to go down the path of neutrality, may his people choose otherwise?
Spurgeon wrote, ‘Christ Jesus is not neutral in the great contest between right and wrong: as warmly as he loves the one he abhors the other. What qualifications for a sovereign! What grounds of confidence for a people! The whole of our Lord’s life on earth proved the truth of these words; his death to put away sin and bring in the reign of righteousness, sealed the fact beyond all question; his providence by which he rules from his mediatorial throne, when rightly understood, reveals the same; and his final assize will proclaim it before all worlds. We should imitate him in both his love and hate; they are both needful to complete a righteous character.’
From C. H. Spurgeon in The Treasury of David
Singing in Babylon 
Love and hate…
Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;
you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness.
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you
with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
Psalm 45:6-7 ESV
If we are tempted, from a misguided sense of political correctness or fear of offending, to replace hated with another word, for instance, rejected, because we think that to hate at all is somehow improper in a Christian, then we should probably think again, or we will risk finding ourselves guilty of a much higher order of incorrectness or offense than we imagined.
Charles Spurgeon, in his comments on Psalm 45:6-7, reminds us that the nature of choice demands complementary rejection(s). Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other,or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. ” Matthew 6:24 ESV. When a King refuses to go down the path of neutrality, may his people choose otherwise?
Spurgeon wrote, ‘Christ Jesus is not neutral in the great contest between right and wrong: as warmly as he loves the one he abhors the other. What qualifications for a sovereign! What grounds of confidence for a people! The whole of our Lord’s life on earth proved the truth of these words; his death to put away sin and bring in the reign of righteousness, sealed the fact beyond all question; his providence by which he rules from his mediatorial throne, when rightly understood, reveals the same; and his final assize will proclaim it before all worlds. We should imitate him in both his love and hate; they are both needful to complete a righteous character.’
From C. H. Spurgeon in The Treasury of David
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