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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