Thursday, July 19, 2012


Read Proverbs 12:22  There are two opposite words here in our verse for today.  Solomon says that lying lips are an abomination.  The word abomination means something that is disgusting.  When you take out the garbage and toss the plastic bag in the big bin, the smell that comes from that big bin is an abomination.  When you are on your way to church and you see a possum that has been run over by a car, and it has flies all over it, and its guts are squished out, well that is an abomination.  You can see that God hates lying lips.  But then the second half of the verse says that people who deal truly are His delight.  Delight means pleasure.  When you come home from church and you take off your tie that has been choking your neck, well that is delight.  When you go to McDonald’s on a hot summer day and get a nice cold ice cream cone and you begin to lick around it and let the sweet melted ice cream run down your throat, well that is delight.  When you are playing baseball and it is hot and the dry, dusty wind blows in your face - when you get three outs and you come running into the dugout and get a paper cup and go to the cooler and some of that ice cold water, well that is delight.  I do not want to be an abomination to God.  I want to be His delight.  Can you think of some abominations and some delights?  Can you think of some abominations that God hates and some delights that He enjoys?

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