Romans 1:God's Wrath Against Mankind

⁸The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, ¹⁹since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. ²⁰For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

This is so true. It so incredible to see that even though the world has barely changed at all. Think about it, this was written a few hundred years ago and its still describes our world today. What really hits me is how Paul says that there is no excuse why people should not know or follow him.

²¹For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²²Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ²³and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

This is what happens when we neglect god. when we know he's there and not thank, praise or glorify them. we become hardened and foolish believing we can do everything on our own. This is a true and real description of our world today.

²⁴Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.²⁵They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

I would be fed up too if I wasn't being appreciated.

²⁶Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. ²⁷In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Again, this is another good description of the world today.

²⁸Furthermore, 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. ²⁹They 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, ³⁰slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; ³¹they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.³²Although 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.

Gods love can only do so much if you do not accept it. we need to accept yet also live to praise and honor him. If we dont we will eventually become the type of people that paul describes. What really hits the heart is that this whole passage is so true. That so many people know of God and have seen/ heard his miracles yet the choose to live in the darkness.

I cant lie I'm not perfect and there are times when I act as paul describes and it scares me. but I guess being scared is ok, cause it'll keeps me on my toes.