We read in Luke 16:15, “Ye are they which justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts, for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.”
The pride, ambition, pleasures, and amusements, in which we see thousands and tens of thousands engaged—and sailing down the stream into a dreadful gulf of eternity—are all an abomination in the sight of God!
Whereas the things which men despise, such as . . . faith, hope, love, humility, brokenness of heart, tenderness of conscience, contrition of spirit, sorrow for sin, self-loathing, self-abasement, looking to Jesus, taking up the cross, denying one’s self, walking in the narrow path that leads to eternal life, —are despised by all—and by none so much as mere heady religious professors—who have a name to live, while dead.
To reiterate Luke 16:15, “Ye are they which justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts, for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.”