God's Word: The Rock Foundation

Proverbs 18:3

When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes disgrace.

When I think of what defines wickedness I immediately think of the Ten Commandments.  Any word or phrase that you could use to define wickedness would be a product of  breaking one, or more, of the Commandments.  This is why contempt follows wickedness.  Everyone knows in their heart (conscience) what wickedness is.  So when it comes they become contemptible to themselves and to others.  This is why wicked people hate wicked people.  

Think about it this way:  murderers don't trust other murderers, adulterers don't trust other adulterers, thieves don't trust other thieves.  These people may work and scheme together for a while, but eventually they will turn on each other.  The wicked person knows that he can't be trusted so there is no way he is going to trust someone who is exactly like himself.  This is why wickedness and contempt go hand-in-hand.  This is why you have to be very cautious when it comes to trusting anyone who is not a Christian.  If some one's foundation is not built on the Bible then everything becomes relative.  Without the Bible there are no absolutes, everything becomes subject to individual interpretation and feelings.

The person who rejects the authority of God's Word, the Bible, is like a balloon at a child's birthday party.  They are batted here and there, incapable of standing firm on any issue, or for any issue.  Every time some new fad research report comes out that person is floating in that direction, until the next one bats them in a different direction.  Exhaustingly, these people can change their "beliefs" as often, and as much, as that balloon at the birthday party changes direction.  Few things in life change more than the core values of the person who has built their life on a foundation of sand- usually quicksand.

Wickedness is shameful.  So when it comes to light it brings disgrace:  on the individual, his family, and all of his affiliations.  This is the problem with building your foundation on sand:  it will collapse eventually.  And when it does there will be collateral damage.  

Another thing that seems to hold true is the more public the life of the individual, the greater the disgrace.  It becomes public for the whole world to see- literally.

I will end with Jesus' teaching on this matter of building your life on the foundation of God's Word.

Matthew 7:24-27

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.  The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall because it had its foundation on the rock.

But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.  The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."

God bless

Jason Fredrick