4/17/10
Time Spent: 15 min
Main Idea: God's thorough but non-exhaustive list towards personal sins; revealing his hatred of them
What I Learn about God: Part of being holy is hating sin. God can be both a loving and holy God which will lead to Him bearing righteous anger against things that go against His nature.
Summary: Changes the numerical value from six to seven is a way which God is sharing that the list although it may be specific, is not exhaustive. God shares what are the things that he detests summarized by; sins of attitude (17a), one of thought (18a), two of speech (17b, 19a), two of action (17b, 18b), and one of influence (19b). These makeup the things to which the Lord finds an abomination. A parallel is found through this verse and that of vv. 12-14 with repeated vocabulary, showing that the worthless person is the same one which characterizes this person.
Application: The sin that I struggle most with from this list is "haughty eyes". Comparing gifts, ministries, and other things have sidetracked me way too much in my life. Tim Keller notes that envy is one of the most deplorable sins because other sins usually leave the person with some sort of sick satisfaction and joy. However, that is not true with envy. Envy robs all sense of joy as somehow the thing in which God gave you is not enough compared to another. I find that getting over this hump on envy realizes that I have not been fully satisfied in what the Lord had provided me. I am sure I would not envy another person when I can say like the Psalmist, the Lord is my portion forever. I will resolve to memorize Psalm 16:5, "The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot." and meditate on it when I have bouts with envy.
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