The Bible speaks of some people whom “the Lord abhors” (Prov. 22:14). Sounds pretty bad for them.
One such was King David himself, a man whom the Lord had especially picked out as one He loved; but when David fell into that deep and abysmal “pit” of adultery with his neighbor’s wife, he was indeed “abhorred” of the Lord.
But don’t jump to a wrong conclusion: the Lord still loved poor David, in spite of his falling into that deep “pit.”
It was David’s character that the Lord “abhorred,” while He still loved his fallen soul.
That seems a mystery to us: how the Lord could still love a person whom He actually “abhorred” in character.
The closer you come to the Lord, the more you will “abhor” yourself because of the unChristlikeness you can see of your character. That was basically the soul experience that young Isaiah had when he was in the Lord’s temple and saw the glory of the Lord’s character and appreciated His agape-love, how Christ had taken on Himself the second death of the world. Isaiah said, “Woe is me! For I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts” (6:5).
Two things Isaiah “saw”: his unChristlikeness of soul, and the glory of the Lord’s agape-love.
Welcome the vision yourself!
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