* * Jesus gave us the two greatest commandments:

* Love God

* Love People

* “True love is compassion with standards” -Dr. Tony Evans.

* What does this look like?

* David gives us a picture in this Psalm.

* Vs 13-18 - David is reflecting on God’s compassion for him.

* Vs 19-22 - David talks about God’s standards.

* To love as God loves is to hate as God hates.

* Proverbs 6:16 - God hates pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, sloth.

* Bible Knowledge Commentary - “To hate them meant to reject them, to disavow any association with them.”

* Skip Moen - “David is expressing an emotional attitude toward persons and things which are opposed, detested, despised and with which he wishes to have no contact or relationship. Hate, in this case, is a virtue. When we feel sick to our stomach because God is not honored by someone or something, that is what hatred should feel like. The most important point of David’s verse is that there are people who act with disregard and dishonor toward God and these people make David sick to his stomach. As he says, he wants nothing to do with them.”

* David recognized that love is compassion with standards.

* Vs 23-24 - He then asks God to search his heart so he’s not grieving God like those who reject Him.

* This kept David humble.