In Proverbs, chapter fourteen, verse two, to despise God is to sin against Him and treat Him with contempt. The theme verse, “He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth Him.” The ungodly who desire not to live godly and according to God’s Word. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, experienced this in Isaiah fifty-three, verse three, “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.” Jesus’ mission would involve great pain, suffering, disappointment, and grief because of the sin of humankind.
To despise is to look down on: not have any interest or care. However, at the same time, those who serve God and have Jesus Christ within them are yet looked upon and observed. The inner spirit inside each person is the dictator and not the external part. Who we serve and desire to follow, that we will also do. In the first part of Matthew six, verse twenty-four, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.”
The truth is that those who serve the Lord righteously will also be despised. Jesus said in John fifteen, verses eighteen through nineteen, “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” “He that hateth me hateth my Father also, as in John fifteen, verse twenty-three.