Proverbs 8:12-17
I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out
knowledge of witty inventions.
The fear of
the LORD is to hate evil: pride,
and
arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
When
we hate evil we are choosing to esteem the Lord’s judgment on matters over our
own or the world’s in which we live.
Sometimes we can hear something funny on a show or movie and we
chuckle. We must evaluate whether this
response is appropriate. Is the joke
dealing with things that the Lord says are sinful? Does the story line exalt folly and mock at
righteousness? If we find pleasure in
those things and allow ourselves to enjoy them we are not walking in the fear
of the Lord. We are taught to hate evil
not be entertained by it.
After we determine to hate whatever
the Lord calls evil we see here a list of some of the things that He
hates. We must hate pride, arrogancy,
the evil way and the froward mouth. The
first place to hate these is within our own lives. Whenever we speak or think out of pride or
speak in any sort of deceptive manner we must confess this as sin and hate it
enough to cry out to the Lord for deliverance and determine to reject these
responses as acceptable. Another good
place to start is asking the Lord to give us a hatred for these things. If we want to be like Him, we should love the
things He loves and hate the things He hates.
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