Proverb 3:34

“Surely He scorns the scornful,
But gives grace to the humble.”

Throughout scripture, we see a picture of God desiring to mold his people. He wants them to have soft and pliable hearts that has give in the holy hands of the potter. But mankind has hardened their hearts like the Pharaoh of Egypt and we are told that they (the hard-hearted) will be like potsherds broken into tiny shards, which will be grazed by the belly of the head of all evil (Job 41:30). 

To scorn is to have a contemptuous and arrogant view of self while seeing others and treating them as less than. If we go through life disregarding others because of our own pious disgust with their thoughts, their ways, their decisions, their religion and their clothes, etc. then we will be viewed through a similar lens and we will be disregarded on the day of judgement by our Lord. 

But (thank God for this conjunction!) if we soften our hearts to the needy (foremost the self!); if we learn to see them as a child of God who is lost and broken because of sin, and if we reach out to them with a heart full of love and compassion, extending grace in the areas they have been wrong on their way to restored souls, then God will likewise delve grace to the humble-hearted on the day of judgement. 

Every day we have a choice: to accept his new mercies, to soak the calloused parts of the heart in them and be more pliable in the hands of the Father. Take on his mercies and compassions and extend them to lost and wandering souls. Embrace them and refuse the temptation to shun those in your sphere if they have differences than you. Give grace to those you deem undeserving that He too may pour out graces onto your sinful soul when that day comes!