“ABOMINATION!”

 Deuteronomy 17:1

“You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your GOD an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for THAT IS AN “ABOMINATION” to the LORD your GOD.”

How many times have you heard “GOD wouldn’t do that. HE loves us”?  But we supposedly love GOD and we are seemingly always doing what is considered to be an “ABOMINATION” to the LORD?  Surely GOD loved Joseph AND WAS WITH HIM (Genesis 39:2), but GOD allowed Joseph to go through some terrible things, and brought him through EVIL THINGS “that many people should be kept alive, as they are today” (Genesis 50:20)!

In Deuteronomy the WORD OF GOD is giving us “parameters” on how to live a life acceptable and HOLY.  We are instructed in Deuteronomy 17:1 to NOT give GOD anything with a blemish, or a flaw, because that would be an “ABOMINATION” to the LORD!  The definition of “ABOMINATION” is “a thing that causes disgust or hatred.”  Anything other than our best causes GOD maybe even extreme disgust!  

So where does this leave us when we so want to give back to the ONE WHO purchased our salvation!  The Apostle Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 12:9 “But HE said to me, “MY GRACE is sufficient for you, for MY POWER IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS.” Therefore I WILL BOAST ALL THE MORE GLADLY OF MY WEAKNESSES, so that THE POWER OF CHRIST may rest upon me.”  It “pleased” GOD to bruise HIS SON so that HE could SEE HIM when HE looked at me (Isaiah 53:10)!

Anything performed outside of CHRIST, outside of HIS inspiration and leadership, is an “ABOMINATION” to the LORD.  We do not have it within our abilities to sacrifice anything that can be acceptable to a HOLY GOD, therefore we MUST die to ourselves and live our lives as a Testament to HIM.  We can live life “the best we can”, but it will be an “ABOMINATION” unless “THE POWER OF CHRIST” rests upon us!!!