Detest or Delight

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
DETEST OR DELIGHT
Prov 11:20
20 The LORD detests men of perverse heart
but he delights in those whose ways are blameless.
NIV
No doubt is would serve me well to have a firm understanding of what displeases the Lord and then govern my life accordingly. I think it is pretty clear he does not like a man who is double-hearted in the sense of pretending to do good well actually doing evil. Hypocrisy is at the core of the type of behavior, or attitude of the heart, which the Lord not only dislikes but detests. This building of facades for the purpose of personal gain is most offensive to God. He delights in honesty, not crookedness. I have to be who I am, especially with my Lord. How could I hide anything from him? He knows me better than I know myself, and I know myself very well. I suppose some people might even attempt being dishonest, crooked or hypocritical with themselves, thinking they are something they are not, and not something they are. What about those who are one way with one certain group and another way with some other group? I do not think I am that sort of chameleon. Yet I do think I am more guarded with some than with others. Does that make me a hypocrite? Yet on the other side of things I am confident that God seeks me as blameless. This view is not because I am blameless, but because he sees me through the blood of Jesus. All my blamelessness is due completely by Christ. The reason God delights in me is because I have accepted his provision for my salvation. He has justified me through the blood of Jesus. He has satisfied his own justice by sending Jesus to die for me. My ways are blameless because of Jesus Christ. I walk in the ways of God, not the ways of the world. Yes it was my choice to walk in the direction I walk, but as far as being pure and blameless, that is still due to Jesus, not me. But within the context of this proverbs I prefer God delights rather than his detest.