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DONNIE DAILY DELIGHTS FOR TUESDAY MAY 26:
WORD OF WISDOM
A wise Christian measures everything by the Bible.
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DAILY DEVOTION
NOTE: Here are the notes from my sermon this past Sunday:
10 Ways To Hate God
"If we are unconverted, one thing is absolutely certain: we hate God. The
Bible is unambiguous at this point. We are God's enemies. We are inwardly
sworn to His ultimate destruction. It is as natural for us to hate God as it
is for rain to moisten the earth when it falls." (R C Sproul).
Yes, by nature, you and I are haters. We are born haters and hating (Titus
3:3). Which would be great if it was evil that we hated. But it's not. It's
the epitome of all good that we hate - God (Roman 8:7). In chapter nine of
The Holiness of God, R C Sproul wrote:
"By nature our attitude toward God is not one of mere indifference. It is a
posture of malice. We oppose His government and refuse His rule over us..It
is not enough to say what the natural human mind views God as an enemy. We
must be more precise. God is our mortal enemy. He represents the highest
possible threat to our sinful desires..We despise his very existence and
would do anything in our power to rid the universe of His holy presence.If
God were to expose His life to our hands, He would not be safe for a second.
We would not ignore Him; we would destroy Him."
You'd think that such unprecedented intense hatred would be obvious to us,
but it's not. It's one of the greatest triumphs of the devil that he stirs
up this hatred in us, while at the same time blinding us to it. What's worst
of all, is that some of this natural hatred remains even in the Christian
who has been given a new and supernatural love for God.
To help both believers and unbelievers better detect and root out this
hatred from our hearts, here are ten ways in which we hate God.
1. We Deny Him: We deny his existence, or, like Peter, in certain
circumstances we deny we know Him.
2. We Belittle Him: By ignoring Him, sidelining Him, not talking to Him, or
not listening to Him.
3. We Contradict Him: We argue with His Word, His works, and His will.
4. We Disobey Him: We just blatantly and knowingly and stubbornly do what He
forbids, or don't do what He commands.
5. We Insult Him: We speak evil of Him, we use His name in curses, or use it
in vain and frivolous ways.
6. We Blame Him: We accuse Him of ill-will, unfairness, injustice.
7. We Refuse Him: We refuse His help, His hand, His salvation.
8. We Distort Him: Ignoring God's love, mercy, grace, salvation, we focus
only on God's holiness, wrath, justice, and sovereignty - or vice versa -
and end up with a distortion of God.
9. We Use Him: We expect Him to come to our aid when we're really desperate,
but ignore him all other times.
10. We Take From Him: We just take and take, but without a word of praise or
thanks.
Beginning to see a problem? So did the Apostle Paul, which is why he
described us as "foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and
pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another" (Titus
3:3).
But in the very next verse, Paul also announced the solution, a solution
that's provided by the very same God that we hate.
"But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared,
not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy
He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy
Spirit." (Titus 3:4-5).
Yes, there's a Lover for haters! More than that, this Lover turns haters
into lovers!!
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DAILY BIBLE READING
Job 16-18The Message (MSG)
Job Defends Himself
If You Were in My Shoes
16 1-5 Then Job defended himself:
"I've had all I can take of your talk.
What a bunch of miserable comforters!
Is there no end to your windbag speeches?
What's your problem that you go on and on like this?
If you were in my shoes,
I could talk just like you.
I could put together a terrific harangue
and really let you have it.
But I'd never do that. I'd console and comfort,
make things better, not worse!
6-14 "When I speak up, I feel no better;
if I say nothing, that doesn't help either.
I feel worn down.
God, you have wasted me totally-me and my family!
You've shriveled me like a dried prune,
showing the world that you're against me.
My gaunt face stares back at me from the mirror,
a mute witness to your treatment of me.
Your anger tears at me,
your teeth rip me to shreds,
your eyes burn holes in me-God, my enemy!
People take one look at me and gasp.
Contemptuous, they slap me around
and gang up against me.
And God just stands there and lets them do it,
lets wicked people do what they want with me.
I was contentedly minding my business when God beat me up.
He grabbed me by the neck and threw me around.
He set me up as his target,
then rounded up archers to shoot at me.
Merciless, they shot me full of arrows;
bitter bile poured from my gut to the ground.
He burst in on me, onslaught after onslaught,
charging me like a mad bull.
15-17 "I sewed myself a shroud and wore it like a shirt;
I lay facedown in the dirt.
Now my face is blotched red from weeping;
look at the dark shadows under my eyes,
Even though I've never hurt a soul
and my prayers are sincere!
The One Who Represents Mortals Before God
18-22 "O Earth, don't cover up the wrong done to me!
Don't muffle my cry!
There must be Someone in heaven who knows the truth about me,
in highest heaven, some Attorney who can clear my name-
My Champion, my Friend,
while I'm weeping my eyes out before God.
I appeal to the One who represents mortals before God
as a neighbor stands up for a neighbor.
"Only a few years are left
before I set out on the road of no return."
17 1-2 "My spirit is broken,
my days used up,
my grave dug and waiting.
See how these mockers close in on me?
How long do I have to put up with their insolence?
3-5 "O God, pledge your support for me.
Give it to me in writing, with your signature.
You're the only one who can do it!
These people are so useless!
You know firsthand how stupid they can be.
You wouldn't let them have the last word, would you?
Those who betray their own friends
leave a legacy of abuse to their children.
6-8 "God, you've made me the talk of the town-
people spit in my face;
I can hardly see from crying so much;
I'm nothing but skin and bones.
Decent people can't believe what they're seeing;
the good-hearted wake up and insist I've given up on God.
9 "But principled people hold tight, keep a firm grip on life,
sure that their clean, pure hands will get stronger and stronger!
10-16 "Maybe you'd all like to start over,
to try it again, the bunch of you.
So far I haven't come across one scrap
of wisdom in anything you've said.
My life's about over. All my plans are smashed,
all my hopes are snuffed out-
My hope that night would turn into day,
my hope that dawn was about to break.
If all I have to look forward to is a home in the graveyard,
if my only hope for comfort is a well-built coffin,
If a family reunion means going six feet under,
and the only family that shows up is worms,
Do you call that hope?
Who on earth could find any hope in that?
No. If hope and I are to be buried together,
I suppose you'll all come to the double funeral!"
Bildad's Second Attack
Plunged from Light into Darkness
18 1-4 Bildad from Shuhah chimed in:
"How monotonous these word games are getting!
Get serious! We need to get down to business.
Why do you treat your friends like slow-witted animals?
You look down on us as if we don't know anything.
Why are you working yourself up like this?
Do you want the world redesigned to suit you?
Should reality be suspended to accommodate you?
5-21 "Here's the rule: The light of the wicked is put out.
Their flame dies down and is extinguished.
Their house goes dark-
every lamp in the place goes out.
Their strong strides weaken, falter;
they stumble into their own traps.
They get all tangled up
in their own red tape,
Their feet are grabbed and caught,
their necks in a noose.
They trip on ropes they've hidden,
and fall into pits they've dug themselves.
Terrors come at them from all sides.
They run helter-skelter.
The hungry grave is ready
to gobble them up for supper,
To lay them out for a gourmet meal,
a treat for ravenous Death.
They are snatched from their home sweet home
and marched straight to the death house.
Their lives go up in smoke;
acid rain soaks their ruins.
Their roots rot
and their branches wither.
They'll never again be remembered-
nameless in unmarked graves.
They are plunged from light into darkness,
banished from the world.
And they leave empty-handed-not one single child-
nothing to show for their life on this earth.
Westerners are aghast at their fate,
easterners are horrified:
'Oh no! So this is what happens to perverse people.
This is how the God-ignorant end up!'"
The Message (MSG)
Copyright C 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson
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