Thursday, July 19, 2012

Proverbs - God Wants Us to Hate





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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