March 8, 2024 – Some Things Turn God’s Stomach

Some Things Turn God’s Stomach
March 8, 2024

DAILY PROVERB:

Proverbs 6:16-19
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

OUTLOOK ON THE IN BOOK:

        As Christians, we all retain the old sin nature. It is possible for anyone to be tempted by sin and to give in. Living in known sin with no remorse cannot be a saved person’s lifestyle. A Christian will desire to be more like their Savior, Jesus Christ.

      1 John 1:9 was placed in Scripture for the redeemed who have given in to sin’s temptations. It tells us how to get back to where we should be, in fellowship with God. However, what truly sickens God is the disobedience of premeditated sin. Planning on sinning, thinking God has to forgive you someday. God will always forgive you of your sin but does not always take away the penalty of that sin.

       There are those who cannot wait to sin. Their feet are swift to run to mischief. These people not only plan and meditate on sin but also can’t wait to engage in it. If only Christians were as eager to serve as some sinners are eager to sin.

      Among the first six things the Lord hates, we find lying to be a part of two of them. God hates lying, and even more so, falsely accusing or lying against another person. Not only have you sinned, but you have also defamed the character of another. These lies damage something which God holds dear: the testimony of their life. We should guard our testimony as if it were gold. God truly hates it when someone tries to falsely tear that down.

      The last on the list is also called an abomination unto God. Abomination carries the meaning of something that stinks and will turn your stomach. What ultimately turns God’s stomach? People gossiping, slandering, exaggerating, lying, and dividing the body of Christ. It’s verbally attacking the people whom God loves, and we should love too. It makes God sick.     
 

THE WORD WALKING IN ME:

     God is a God of reconciliation. Reconciling people to himself, and also to one another. He has never been the God of division. If we are to be more like Christ, shouldn’t we too be more about healing, than dividing?

Is our life bringing joy to God’s heart
or turning God’s stomach?

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage, and todays Devotion?

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

  

GOD TALKING TO ME: MARCH 8, 2024

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH A DAILY PROVERBS
    Deuteronomy 11 – Deuteronomy 14
    Proverbs 6:16 – 19

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
   Numbers 21-22
   Mark 11