Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it.
You are to abhor and detest it utterly because it is set apart for destruction. (Deuteronomy 7:26)
Those words really resonated with me this morning.
How often do I bring detestable things into my home?
For me, the thing I need to be most careful about “bringing in” is what I watch on the internet. Or what kinds of things I read. Or what podcasts I listen to.
God brought to mind a podcast I was listening to just yesterday. It was mostly fine, but there was about a five-minute stretch of coarse joking.
I wasn’t entertained at all, but for some reason, I didn’t shut it off either. Probably because it never occurred to me how much God detested it.
I think next time, I’ll either have to skip forward or shut it off altogether. Because anything God detests, I need to too. These are things are set apart for destruction.
We are a holy people, belonging to the Lord. God has chosen us to be his special possession. (6)
So with grateful hearts, let us live that way, and not “bring into our homes” anything God detests.
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