You have good reason to 'hate evil', for only consider what harm is has already done to you. Oh, what a world of mischief sin has brought into your heart! Sin blinded you so that you could not see the beauty of the Saviour; it made you deaf so that you could not hear the Redeemer's tender invitations. Sin turned your feet into the way of death, and poured poison into the very fountain of your being; it tainted your heart, and made it 'deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked'.

Oh, what a creature you were when evil had done its utmost with you, before divine grace interposed! You were an heir of wrath even as others; you did 'run with the multitude to do evil'.

Such were all of us; but Paul reminds us, 'but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God'.

We have good reason, indeed, for hating evil when we look back and trace its deadly workings. Such mischief did evil do us, that our soul would have been lost had not omnipotent love interfered to redeem us.

Even now it is an active enemy, ever watching to do us hurt, and to drag us to perdition. Therefore, 'hate evil', O Christians, unless you desire trouble. If you would strew your path with thorns, and plant nettles in your death-pillow, then neglect to 'hate evil'; but if you would live a happy life, and die a peaceful death, then walk in all the ways of holiness, hating evil, even unto the end.

If you truly love your Saviour, and would honour Him, then 'hate evil'. We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like abundant intercourse with the Lord Jesus. Dwell much with Him, and it is impossible for you to be at peace with sin.

C.H. Spurgeon, Morning & Evening, 06/07

Here is a comforting word of encouragement to those who are concerned about the mounting evil in this world, threatening to destroy every living being. Let us pray without ceasing that He that is hindering would continue to hinder until He be taken out of the way (2 Thessalonians 2:7). And let us, rather than fearing, look up, and lift up our heads, for our redemption draweth nigh. Luke 21:28

Noah was shut in away from all the world by the hand of divine love. The door of electing purpose interposes between us and the world which lieth in the wicked ones.

We are not of the world even as our Lord Jesus was not of the world. Into the sin, the gaiety, the pursuits of the multitude we cannot enter; we cannot play in the streets of Vanity Fair with the children of darkness, for our heavenly Father has shut us in.

Noah was shut in with his God. "Come thou into the ark,' was the Lord's invitation, by which He clearly showed that He Himself intended to dwell in the ark with His servant and his family.

Thus all the chosen dwell in God and God in them. Happy people to be enclosed in the same circle which contains God in the Trinity of his persons, Father, Son, and Spirit.

Let us never be inattentive to that gracious call, "Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee, and hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast'. Isaiah 26:20

Noah was so shut in that no evil could reach him. Floods did but lift him heavenward, and winds did but waft him on his way. Outside of the ark all was ruin, but inside all was rest and peace.

Without Christ we perish, but in Christ Jesus there is perfect safety. Noah was so shut in that he could not even desire to come out, and those who are in Christ Jesus are in Him for ever. They shall go no more out for ever, for eternal faithfulness has shut them in, and infernal malice cannot drag them out.

The Prince of the house of David shuts and no man opens; and when once, in the last days, as Master of the house He shall rise up and shut the door, it will be in vain for mere professors to knock, and cry 'Lord, Lord, open unto us', for that same door which shuts in the wise virgins will shut out the foolish for ever.

Lord, shut me in by Thy grace.

C.H. Spurgeon, Morning & Evening, 05/06