Hating and Loving

Tonight I met with some of my small group cats as is our custom on Wednesday nights. I haven't been there for a couple of weeks due to some travel obligations but was fortunate enough to make it tonight. A couple of weeks ago one of the guys busted out what has become to me an epiphany of sorts. We are on the topic of temptation as we are following a video series dealing with it and it was said that hating [our] sin will not make me grow closer to Jesus, but loving God will cause me to hate [our] sin all the more. Maybe that should be intuitive but it was, to me, an important discussion that has altered forever (hopefully) my perspective of sin, grace and redemption.