If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination. Proverbs 28:9 – Someone’s prayer being an abomination, something disgusting, to the Lord doesn’t sound like something we’d want to find in scripture. Shouldn’t God love our prayers, and doesn’t He tell us to pray without ceasing? So why would prayer ever be an abomination to Him? We must remember the context here, for who’s prayer is an abomination? The person who rejects and turns away from God’s word. Imagine trying to tell a message to someone, but they reject you every time you speak, and they refuse to listen to anything you have to say, but they want you to listen to everything they say to you. You wouldn’t have the same level of interest in their words to you as someone else who gladly listened to you when you spoke. God loves it when His people pray and does want them to continually be seeking time in prayer with Him, but God also wants people to listen to what He has to say too. God wants us to invest time in His words taking in all His words to us, cherishing the voice of our God in our life. Such a person is someone the Lord loves to hear the prayer of, but for the person who distains God’s word their voice is not as pleasing to the Lord. Be then someone who rejoices at hearing the word of God and someone who seeks it out deeply for we all want our words to the Lord to be something that He finds pleasure in hearing. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2936
Question To Ponder: Thinking on this connection between our passion for God’s words and how that effects how pleasing our words are to Him, how pleasurable would you say your words are to the Lord right now?
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