How Does God Feel About Haters?

We know that God loves the world but He doesn't love everything we do. In comparing our relationship to God to a parent/child releationship, it's like a parent who loves their children but doesn't like everything they do. God is the same way toward us but has even greater love then parents.

One of the things God does not agree with is when people dislike someone for apparantly no reason. This is known as a hater. Unfortunately women are known for hating on each other for no reason. A woman can look at another woman with a condemning expression and then neither one will speak to each other. The woman making the facial expression may not be thinking anything about the woman but having a conversation in her head about something else. However, the woman on the other end of the expression is offended and starts to hate on the woman.
The Bible clearly states ins Proverbs 4:29-32 says:
Do not devise evil against your neighbor,
For he dwells by you for safety’s sake.
³⁰ Do not strive with a man without cause,
If he has done you no harm.

³¹ Do not envy the oppressor,
And choose none of his ways;
³² For the perverse person is an abomination to the Lord,
But His secret counsel is with the upright.
The Word is stating if no one has given you a reason to hurt them then don't do it. Really, no one on earth has given a reason to hurt them because as a child of God, revenge is the Lord's. That is why verse 31 says do not copy the oppressor either because God is not pleased with them. The New Living Translation breaks these 4 scriptures down even further:
Don’t plot harm against your neighbor,
for those who live nearby trust you.
³⁰ Don’t pick a fight without reason,
when no one has done you harm.

³¹ Don’t envy violent people
or copy their ways.
³² Such wicked people are detestable to the Lord,
but he offers his friendship to the godly.

Wow! This is the answer for haters. They will have to deal with the Lord. Don't be a hater and if someone hates on you don't hate back. Walk in love toward the haters and let God deal with them because if you treat them back how they are treating you, you will become like them and will have to deal with God for your behavior.
Paying a woman back for hating on me is not worth disappointing God and messing up what He has for me. I know God has my back and He has all of your's too. If something nice doesn't come out of our mouths, just smile and nod. If it's a coworker, just smile and nod. A family member, just smile and nod. Eventually they are going to think she is always smiling and nodding maybe I should just leave her alone. Being an example of God is a witness to them and they will realize that their hating on you has not stopped one blessing from God on your life, so don't let them. Hopefully your behavior of walking in love will lead to them repentance and salvation.

How To Truly Restore Your Life

No one wants to face bad consequences that feel like punishment. Everyone wants the good consequences, however if bad choices are made there will be bad consequences. I teach my children all the time to make good choices to receive good things. If they make bad choices then they will be in trouble. My daughters do not like getting their cell phone privileges removed. However if they are doing things on their phone, making bad grades or being disrespectful, the cell phone is taking away from them. It is removed because as a parent, I love my children. I want to protect my children and teach them right from wrong. My job as a parent is to guide them so that they will become responsible adults.

 I am a child of God. God is my Father. Since He is my Father I know that He feels the same way about me that I do about my children. God wants me to make good choices to protect me. When I don't He corrects me by punishing me. That is when His grace takes over because I am able to go to Him and ask for forgiveness. I repent, learn my lesson and change. Then He restores me back, sometimes greater, then I was before I made the bad choice. This is such an awesome thing to have in such a mighty God.

The people who are not God's child are the ones who have not received Him as Lord of their lives. Their life is not under God's grace. They make bad choices but don't have a Father in heaven to restore their life. They are always trying to restore their own life, which is exhausting and never satisfying. Life feels like a merri-go-round that never ends. God can make it stop.

Only God can truly bring restoration just as we are the only ones who can restore our children after they make a bad choice. The awesome thing about God is that He is always there, when our parents are not. When our parents are not there to restore us from a bad choice, God our ultimate Father is waiting on us. We must receive Him as Lord over lives so that we can live life fully restored.