Six Things the Lord Hates [part 2]

Continued from yesterday…

5:  Feet that be swift to running to mischief –

MISCHIEF is defined as: harm, damage, or injury esp. done by a person.  A person causing annoyance, conduct that causes trouble.  Tricks, pranks.

Is it really a bad thing to have what we call a little fun?  This is one of the things the Lord hates. He doesn’t hate us having fun, but if it harms someone, damages someone or something, or causes injury, then it needs to be avoided.  By definition, if it’s harmless fun, I don’t think there anything wrong with it.  What about constantly annoying someone?  Have you ever been annoyed to the point you get upset?  I have.  Maybe we should avoid it.  And if it’s something that causes damage to someone’s property, don’t do it.

What about “getting back” at people for something they did to you?

Proverbs 24:29:  “Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.”

6:  False witness that speaketh lies –

Again, Proverbs 19:9 says, “A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.” And verse 8 says, “He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.”

Proverbs 24:28 says, “Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.”

We all too often spread hearsay without knowing if it’s really true or not.  I’ve had false accusations against me before and it’s hurtful.  Sometimes, it’s by a misunderstanding of what someone else has said.  We get the story mixed up by accident and we may get mixed up in what we think is the truth.  But it’s the false witness that speaketh lies that is in Proverbs 24:28 that says not to be a witness against they neighbor without a cause to be.  To deceive someone about someone or something on purpose is what the Lord hates.

7:  He that soweth discord among brethren –

DISCORD:  disagreement, conflict.  A busybody (someone that stirs up strife).

2 Thessalonians 3:11 “For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.”

1 Timothy 5:13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.”

1 Peter 4:15  “But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil doer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.”

The Lord is not pleased when we cause disagreement with our brothers and sisters in the Lord.  He is not pleased when we cause conflict between one another.

If the Lord hates these things and with me having a heart’s desire to follow Him, I too, want to hate these things and be pleasing to the Lord.

-[Amy Montgomery]