The Devotional - 127 - Abomination

Thought for the Day – 127 – Abomination!

Proverbs 6:12-19 – Ever go to the beach and look for shells, starfish, crabs and colorful rocks? This activity is a lot of fun and can last the whole day; ever take a look at your heart? It is not odd that in the moment (within 60 seconds) you can know the six are seven things that are an abomination to God. Why is that? The heart knows its own bitterness. Proverbs 14:10a

  

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I am sitting here thinking about Proverbs 14:10, it is amazing to me that when the LORD highlights a verse of scripture in our mind that there is CAUSE to think more sincerely about it. The verse reads: “The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not share its joy”. My mind swims with thoughts, some of us would call this “digging deeper” but I like to refer this as letting the LORD speak through His Word to me, in this way the Word of the Living God is personal and I for one like that.

Have you noticed that when people are focused on SIN that the heart is full of bitterness and causes many other hearts to be affected? I like the way the writer of Hebrews puts it that when we are in the flesh it is necessary to strengthen the hands that hang limp and refresh the feeble knees. Sin is disabling and when we sin we are like the lame and like the lame, we can be picked out in a crowd very quickly. Also we are not producing peace and our lack of holiness is affecting the people around, thus our sinful path is crooked and noticeable. Hebrews 12:12-17

Hebrews 12:15 – “Looking diligently lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled”.

Proverbs 14:10b – “And a stranger does not share its joy” on the other side of this thought in Proverbs is that when we are walking in the Spirit of God, the joy in our heart is so wonderful that it is INEXPRESSABLE, meaning simply that this joy is so personal and complete in Jesus that no one but you and God understands. Notice again what the apostle Peter has to say about this in 1 Peter 1:3:9.

“Blessed be the God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials. That the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelations of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith – the salvation of your souls”.

So for me the last half of Proverbs 14:10 speaks volumes about this joy of being saved that strangers to the gospel do not understand. This brings us back to Proverbs 6:12-19. The world is the stranger and the world understands a perverse mouth, winking eyes, shuffling feet, pointing fingers, a perverse heart, evil devices and a complaining tongue. Therefore we must monitor our heart and the responses of our body language. Without a word spoken our body is often an abomination to God.