A Short and Powerful Lesson !!! PROVERBS 21:3-4 ( KJV ) 3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. 4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin. AMEN !!! . Verse 3 - Living consistently with integrity toward God and our fellowman pleases God more than an occasional sacrifice with fasting or giving up something important. It is not easy to live a disciplined life. Our human nature is such that we tend to become slack in doing what we should. God desires to lead us into a lifestyle of righteousness that is not erratic. . Sometimes we think outward actions, such as good works, giving tithes and offerings, etc, are sufficient to please God. God, however, desires a relationship with us. Sacrifices may help us live unselfishly and uprightly before God, but they should not be motivated by a desire to pacify Him or to earn His love. They should be the natural results of loving Him and walking in faith and obedience with Him. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone ( MATTHEW 23:23 KJV ). . Verse 4 - Pride causes a man to feel that he is above others, thus looking down on them, revealing that he considers himself superior to them. Earlier in Proverbs, we found a list of seven things that are an abomination to God. A proud look heads the list: These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood. An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren ( PROVERBS 6:16-19 KJV ). God resists the proud and exhorts us to humble ourselves before Him. ...God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you ...Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up ( JAMES 4:6-7 KJV ). . The good things in this world, like food (tillage) and entertainment (lamp of joy), can become stumbling blocks for us, if we do not honor God in them. God made these things for us to enjoy. However, if we pursue them with our time and money so that we have little time to spend with God or to do His will, they become sin to us. Jesus said that if we seek first His kingdom and righteousness, that all those things would be added unto us ( MATTHEW 6:31-33 KJV ). Pride in any form will cause us to sin and set us up for a fall. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever ( 1 JOHN 2:16-17 KJV ). AMEN !!!!!
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