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“These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto Him: a proud look” (Proverbs 6:16-17).
God is holy, and He hates sin in any form. However, it is a mistake to think that all sins are equal in God’s sight. Some are far more serious than others. Here in our verse today we have a list of seven sins that the Lord hates especially.
We notice that the first one in the list is “a proud look.” We might think that a “look” is not that serious, but what is on our faces betrays to others what is in our hearts. The Lord can look directly into our hearts, and knows our attitude, and what we are thinking. As creatures, we have no right to be proud, for that takes away from the glory due only to God, and gives it to us. Everything we have, every ability we have to do things, everything we know—it all ultimately comes from God. Truly, as an older brother used to teach us, “Every form of pride is wrong, and ought to be condemned.”
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