Are there some things worth hating?

Luke 14:26 (The Message)

Figure the Cost
25-27One day when large groups of people were walking along with him, Jesus turned and told them, "Anyone who comes to me but refuses to let go of father, mother, spouse, children, brothers, sisters—yes, even one's own self!—can't be my disciple. Anyone who won't shoulder his own cross and follow behind me can't be my disciple.

Jesus stated this passage in another way that many are familiar with but do not like to contemplate.

Luke 14:26 (New International Version)

26"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.

In today's reflection of My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers, Oswald states that if there are places within us that are still hardened, still stubborn. Places inside us where we still believe we are right and they are wrong all of the time, places where we are quick to anger and slow to forgive then those are places where Jesus has not shined his gaze. When Jesus told the rich man to sell everything and follow him scripture states that he looked upon the man in a loving way. Are there places within you that have changed, that are no longer stubborn? Places that are now kept vacant for the Son of Man? Are there places in your mind where you no longer pretend to know all things but have settled down to the realization that what you knew was of the world and now it has been cleaned blank by the hand of God. Those places are now reserved for the hand of Jesus to right on. Then you too have discovered that you can hate something. You reject the world's influence, you reject the dictates of society and no longer strive for the most toys but instead seek austerity because it no longer feeds your soul. You are on the right path my friend, you are feeling his loving gaze.