Psalm 119:163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.

Do you think of hate and abhor as being much the same thing? If you hate something, why should you abhor is also? The study of the word abhor is difficult. In the Hebrew it has multiple words translated into English to render a sense of the emotion, reaction and condition of something which God does not want to be part of life or relationship. In the Greek the word only appears once in Romans where Paul uses the word to imply something that makes one shutter in horror.

I discovered more insight within the Hebrew meanings which might help explain the use of abhor here in this verse. Strangely it is attached to cause of action which does not produce expected result. There is an implication that God intervenes. It is linked to a farmers cattle, which when semen is introduce results in a natural abortion, that the seed that was planted was rejected, and did not take root in the womb.

I hate lying, but find myself at times lying. The fact that I hate lying does not stop me from performing the act. Rationale for the act does nothing to remove that act. It is sin and sin has consequences. This is where abhor takes place. The seed has been sown and there is an expected result, but God intervenes and no root is started, a natural abortion occurs.

Ephesians 3:17-19 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Being filled leaves no room for anything else to take root.

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

There is a show called The Walking Dead, I have never seen that show. I don’t care to see it because I am afraid I just might see myself in the show. For years I was a walking dead man and didn’t know it. I was dead inside and nothing touched me.

When I made Jesus the Lord of my life I came alive. What experience as a dead man walking could I draw on to help me lead this new life? Nothing, the old dead man had nothing to teach me about this life in Christ. Everything became new. Guess what new comes with? No experience in use. I was the walking dead, what did I know about walking in the spirit? Nothing, I needed to be taught.

John 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

I can relate to Peter here. Nothing else worked for me. Having studied other disciplines, I had not found any words that made me alive and they failed me then. But the words Jesus spoke awakened my legs and gave me this awakening, this quickening that animated what was once dead in me. No one else could do that.

Sadly these two great lines which hold great meaning for me surround a very sad truth, one that haunts me at the ease that people can see the truth, can hear the truth and are not moved by it.

John 6:66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

How can anyone see Christ, hear Christ and not make Him the Lord of Life?