Thursday, November 6, 2008

Given over...

I awoke this morning again with God on my mind. My thoughts were not joy filled as yesterday's were, but sobering. I thought of the words repeated several times in Romans 1 that speak of God's wrath being poured out on a people.

"He gave them over to..." (v. 24, 26, 28)

As I watch the celebration of Americans and think of what Obama stands for, I wonder if God has given us over to our own wishes - wishes to be left alone on moral issues like abortion and formalized homosexual relationships and to be free to pursue greater pleasure and wealth. Has God given us over to all these things in order to bring about our destruction?

"Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 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, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 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." (v. 28-32)

God will not be mocked.

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