July 13
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1 Chronicles 15:1-16:36
Romans 1:18-32
Psalm 10:1-15
Proverbs 19:6-7
After a considerable amount of greetings and warm affections for the Romans, Paul gets into some of the hard truths of the world. Paul talks about the basic inability for anyone to see God, though his works are all around us! The world is content to deny and forget the power and Lordship of God although there is everything written in nature and creation to show that he exists, made all and that all are accountable to him. In forgetting God, the human race must turn to all sorts of things to fill in that need to love and worship him, instead they love and bow down to their own desires and own paths. The end of this section is a pretty brutal list of ways of describing a world that has forgotten God. It would be pretty discouraging to stop here, but take heart, the gospel is GOOD NEWS!
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One thing this passage reminds us is that Bible times, in some ways, aren't different from today. The nay-sayers sometimes say that times have changed & today's world is too different to try to squeeze the Gospel into. But look at the sins of the world in Paul's time, particularly the sexual practice of the Romans. It sounds a lot like today.
ReplyDeleteThe Gospel & the Bible are for today.