What God Hates: A Heart That Devises Wicked Schems

Have you ever known someone that wants to ruin someone else? Perhaps their reputation, maybe for their own gain. Politicians do it all the time. I am a fan of the Dr. Phil Show and so many days we see people on there that are plotting against someone else whether in their family or outside of it, for some reason and are seeking his counsel

. Maybe someone tries to bring someone else down simply because they hate them.

That what it means when someone devises wicked schemes. And that is the next thing in God's list of things that he hates.

Of course like every other sin, it goes back long before politicians or the Dr. Phil Show. It goes back, as usual to the Garden of Eden with the devil/snake and his schemes to get Adam and Eve to eat from the tree in the garden that God had specifically told them they were not to eat the fruit from. Genesis 2. Satans scheming was no less than premeditated. Trying to get them to do something for his own advantage. His sneaky plans worked and the rest is history.

One example of that in the bible is one I spoke of in yesterdays blog. King David had an affair with Bathsheba and when she got pregnant with his child, he had her husband killed in battle. After the child was born, God caused him to become sick and die to Davids great despair. His sin had come back to bite him in the keister ((for lack of a better word) for sure because he really wanted the child to live. Their story is in 2 Samuel.

He continues to try to do the same to us. It starts with him planting something in our minds hoping that we will carry out an evil deed.

But nothing gets by God. He knows all, sees all and hears all. And even when it looks to us like someone is getting away with something, in the end, it will come back to bite him in the keister, just like it did Adam and Eve, King David and to everyone throughout history. Even as Christians we are not exempt. Thank God, he gives us forgiveness when we ask him, but sometimes we must pay the consequences when we sin. That is just the way it is. But God is a merciful God and he loves us. He has given us a way of escape from plotting evil against other people. Manipulating things so that they will go our way. All we have to do is ask and he willing and faithful to forgive us our sin when we confess it to him. John 1:9. And for that, if we love God and have accepted Jesus, we can say, Praise God!


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