"I hate and abhor lying: but Thy law do I love."
word for law - law; The paradox and contrast in the Scriptures never cease to amaze me. David has been referring to his love for the Word, and now he refers to his hate for words. I hate and abhor lying - 'thou shalt not lie'; 'Let your speech be with grace, seasoned with salt'; 'What is truth?' 'I am the way, the truth'; IN all these verses we are looking at Christ and that which proceeds from Him. He is truth and therefore He must and has spoken truth; He is God, and God cannot lie. So as David has been declaring his love for God's Word, he is declaring his love for God. And if God is love and is loved, then all that is against God must be hated and abhorred. Lying is the opposite of truth. 'Satan is the father of lies.' 'You are of your father the devil'; 'liars shall not enter the kingdom of heaven'.
We see in these verses the opposite of truth, God and lover for Him. We see David's declaration against those that lie and have any part of it. Christ looked at Nathiel and said, 'a man in whom is no guile'; not so much referring to a liar, but there is no deception in this man. God loves the man that is honest and above board; God hates the liar and those that practice deception. Which are you? are you loved or hated? Which do you love? Do you love the truth of God? or do you love the lies of Satan? It is not a needless question, it is very imporant that we answer truthfully. There is no room for lies here. For many will say with their mouths, 'I love truth'. Yet, they never speak it, they never follow it; they never pracitce it. They are a lie unto their ownselves. If we would be true men and women, then we must be honest about ourselves and the life in which we live. True confession and repentance comes out of a heart smote with the deceptions and 'refuge of lies'. the soul that is seeking to be honest and truthful about who they are finds direction in Christ's words. They do hate and abhor all that which tries to supplant and decay the words of God.
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