Intimacy with God through hate!

☛ Probing Proverbs 6:16-19 There are six things the LORD hates - no, seven things he detests: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent, a heart that plots evil, feet that race to do wrong, a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord in a                                                                                       family.☚ 

I just preached on this – we need to see the positive from these statements. If God hates something, when we join Him in that hate, an intimacy begins. If we hate what He hates, the opposite will become a reality – we will love what He loves. This can become a great exercise in our walk with the Lord. When we see something in the Word that God hates, we can go to the Holy Spirit and ask Him to produce the same kind of righteous indignation for that sin in us. At least two things will happen when we do this: We will become intolerable of sin in OUR OWN lives. 
Notice I said “our own” lives. If this indignation is from the Lord we will not be looking at anyone else. That is Pharisaical and judgmental! God is the One that will judge each man, which is not our job. However, we have the delight to look into the mirror and ask the Holy Spirit to root out every thing in our life that God knows is destroying our closeness to Him. The second thing that happens is that we learn not only what God hates, but what He loves! When you see what He hates ask yourself what is the opposite of that? That characteristic will lead you right to the loving arms of your Father. He knows we cannot manufacture these characteristics on our own in a fallen state. So He will be there waiting for us and desiring to help those characteristics grow in us. Looking at this passage consider: “Seven things He detests:” Haughty eyes – Opposite: Humility; Lying tongue - Opposite: Integrity; Hands that shed innocent blood - Opposite: Defend the defenseless; Heart that devises wicked plans - Opposite: Proactively Good; Feet that run rapidly to evil - Opposite: Immediate Obedience; False witness who utters lies - Opposite: Justice = No Favoritism; One who spreads strife among brothers - Opposite: Peace

As we turn from what God hates and run to what He loves our intimacy with Him will grow exponentially!