One of the clearest signs that you love God and His righteousness is that you hate evil. You may have been taught as a child that “good” people don’t hate. But that is not true. You cannot love good without at the same time hating evil. One cannot exist in the presence of the other. Either evil will overcome good, or good will extinguish evil. Only one can be ultimately victorious.
You cannot love drug addicts without also hating the drugs that rob them of life. You cannot love your wife without also hating adultery and lust. You cannot love honesty and yet toy with deception. To truly love light entails that you despise darkness.
We tend to focus on what we should love. We focus on the “positive.” To “hate” strikes us as being unchristian.
But God hates. Hatred is a strong feeling against something. It excludes indifference. To want what is best for someone means you declare yourself an enemy to what robs them of God’s best. At times we wish people well, but we never oppose that which causes them ill. If we are to love in more than just words, it may mean that we must roll up our sleeves and actively oppose that which is harmful and evil.
You may indeed be a person of love. But do you also, properly, hate?