Contemplative Bible Reading

Proverbs 6:16-19 (New Living Translation)

16 There are six things the Lord hates—
no, seven things he detests:
17 haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that kill the innocent,
18 a heart that plots evil,
feet that race to do wrong,
19 a false witness who pours out lies,
a person who sows discord in a family.

This is one of the lists that we find here and there in the Bible. Things the Lord God hates.

One of the troubling things about this list to me is that I—all of us—see these things every day. I see them, I shrug, and I know that the Lord God hates them. I am sort of, oh well, what’s new, who cares?

Well, God cares. And so should I. It is time I stop accepting these as parts of life and that’s “just the way it is.” It doesn’t have to be this way, and there are some things I can do.