A couple
weeks ago we talked about how we can glorify God instead of exchanging it for
glorifying mortal things. As Paul continues in Romans chapter 1, he explains
what happens when someone chooses to glorify mortal things versus God.
Romans 1:24-32 “24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.
Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In
the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were
inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men,
and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as
they did not think it worthwhile to
retain the knowledge of God, so God
gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be
done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness,
evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and
malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent,
arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their
parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love,
no mercy. 32 Although
they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death,
they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who
practice them.” Romans
1:24-32
It’s not
enough to know God’s righteous decrees. We must retain them, believe them, want
them and live by them. It’s a dangerous place to be when we continue in a sin
to the point that God gives us over to it.
What sin do
you and I need to give over to God so He doesn’t give us over to it? He wants
to help us overcome!
Alice
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