How to Handle your Haters
In today’s day and age we have people that we often simply call haters. A hater is “a person that simply cannot be happy for another person’s success. So rather than be happy they make a point of exposing a flaw in that person.” (Urban Dictionary) Many times in our lives we are confronted with haters. I just read a note in which some one wrote a letter to their haters, telling them to quit hating. I want to let you know that haters are a blessing. And so, here is how to handle your haters.
1. Don’t stoop to their level. Instead be better than them.
This should be a given, but you would be surprised how many people start hating on their haters.
If you see that your enemy’s donkey has fallen because its load is too heavy, do not leave it there. You must help your enemy get the donkey back on its feet. Exodus 23:5 (NCV)
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Matthew 5:43-48 (KJV)
2. Realize that your haters indicate your status
When you don’t have haters, then you must not be doing well. It is a true saying that if you have no haters, examine yourself, because your doing something wrong.
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake. Luke 21:17 (KJV)
3. Know that your haters take you higher.
In other words your haters are your elevators. So the more they hate, the more I elevate and the more haters I have, the higher I go.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Matthew 5:11-12 (KJV)
