Until recently, I did not realize how terribly God views a haughty/high/proud look. If it is a look that can be described in any of those words, it is the same and God hates it. I always knew it to be bad but not how bad. It must have its origin in hell because it gives expression to Lucifer’s thoughts in Isaiah 14: 13-14.
Proverbs 6: 16KJV “These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood”
The dictionary describes ‘haughty’ as blatantly and disdainfully proud. So a haughty look would be a blatantly and disdainfully proud look which is why God has a thing about it.
Proverbs 16: 5 “Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord”….. Isn’t this fearful?
Very often, people feel it necessary to give other people that look, as they say “to put them in their place.” This should not happen amongst Christians because only small minded people feel the need to make other people small and God has made us big minded by giving us a “sound mind”. A sound minded person is empowered by the Holy Ghost to see man as God sees him. If you understand who you are in Christ, then you won’t need to make anyone small. You want to make them small because you see yourself as small and hope to bring them under that ‘small you” which suggests that you consider the other person too high for you to reach.
The God who made us in His image and likeness is the greatest and He never has to prove anything. If you don’t accept his “Almightiness,” that would be your challenge to resolve. It will not add to or take away from Him. A lion never has to prove his “lion hood”. The Lion of Judah made us in His image and likeness and saved our souls so that we can be restored to being just like Him. If you understand what that means, then you won’t need “the look”. You are who you are inspite of what anybody else is.
Strangely, Proverbs 16: 18 says “haughtiness goes before destruction; humility precedes honor.” No wonder Lucifer fell. That look is empowered by satan to destroy people. Remember the maid that looked at Peter just before he denied Jesus as they sat around the fire? Her look was so negatively empowered that Peter feared. Proverbs 21: 4KJV “An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin”
Ladies particularly, please don’t do it, don’t teach it to your children and don’t let anyone teach them either. Let us watch out for the next generation of Christians.
A haughty/high/proud look may have originated from the devil -Lucifer. The Bible called him the father of all lies.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine that look on his face in heaven trying to equate himself with God. Perhaps in a conversation like this... " what do you think of Yourself? I can also be like You, do what You do and still sing and worship You. Do You think You are bigger than I............."
But alas, the conversation never lasted long, God Almighty showed him his true position and sent him to where he belong because he is "so small".
As Christians, it behoves us to emulate Christ and not Lucifer. Christ thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but humbled Himself as we read in Philippians 2:5-8