Proverbs 15:26

The book of Proverbs gives us insights into so many different areas of life. The book gives us instruction on how to live our lives for God. Here is a proverb that gives us insight about the wicked: 

Proverbs 15:26

Evil plans are an abomination to the Lord,

But pleasant words are pure.

Proverbs 15:26 (ESV)

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD,

but gracious words are pure.

In our country we have had way to many mass shootings.   The lost of innocent lives are far too often struck down by evil cowards.   The evil that was perpetrated in the heart of these individuals is unfathomable.     How can any human being shot innocent children is hard to understand.   These things are pure evil.  In the aftermath of the tragedy countless asked, "Where is God."   The answer to that question is in the first line above.  God, like us, hates the evil in this world.   It is an abomination to Him.   He so hates it that He sacrificed His ONLY Son to redeem man to rescue from this evil ... not on this earth but on eternally.   That is the power of the second line.   These words of grace are pure.   God's grace in the foreground are pleasant words as compared to the evil plans that lay in the heart of men.   God hates evil.  We ought not to think of God as absent from this evil.  When men cry to God, "I don't need you in my nation," don't complain when evil happens.   But, be assured that God hates it more than you do.  He hates evil so much that he decided to solve it by sending His own Son to save us from it.   God’s solution to the evil things of this world are to offer gracious words.  What words?  

John 3:16 (ESV)

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

That is how you fight evil.  You overcome evil with good.  That is God’s response to man’s evil.  Yes, God hates evil.  But, unlike us, He does something with it.  He overcomes the evil by sending us the good of His Son.