Hating Our Sin

We hate in others the things we are being convicted of by the Spirit. We hate them in others much more than we hate them in ourselves. Like Peter on the beach asking “What about him?” with regard to John, we are focused on other’s failures and weaknesses instead of ridding ourselves of ours.

We make enemies in our minds of people who seem to be getting by with the things we can’t do. Our enemy is us, however, not them. Like a bird fighting with a mirror, we harm ourselves by neglecting our needs of repair. Jesus’ words to us are a mirror, which, if we will look and then act, will open doors of change and abundant life to us.

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil excess, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you.
But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror; for he looks at himself, goes away, and right away forgets what kind of man he was. But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts—this person will be blessed in what he does.
(James 1:21-25 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)