March 1

Psalm 119:128 (NIV)
128 and because I consider all your precepts right, I hate every wrong path.

It seems that many have been lulled to sleep and accept wrong or tolerate it. I myself found myself fast forwarding a TV show because of objectionable content. My question to myself and all of us is, why just fast forward it? Let’s turn it off! Why just fast forward or tolerate it? We don’t hate wrong paths.

It is easy in this society to let the lines of right and wrong blur and for us as Christians in the name of tolerance accept the practices of evil. Of course we condemn murder, rape, child abuse, but there are the not so subtle and subtle things of our lives and of others that we “tolerate” instead of hate. Our hatred, like God’s hatred of wrong or evil is based in His love for right or good. He loves good because He wants our lives to be good! He loves us so much He wants the best for us! I think God loves us more than we love us. Either that or we don’t consider His precepts right. For most of us we believe what God says is true, right and just, but we may have the attitude that it “isn’t that big of a deal”, when the very thing we are accepting is causing us a death that will reverberate through our lives and even the lives of our family.

This week, ask yourself if you hate the wrong paths you see, hear about or do. Talk to God about it – He loves you more than you love you!